The Ministry of Sports announced that the next National Sports games will be held in Salcedo and Santiago in 2008. Santiago has all the sports facilities, but new installations will have to be built in Salcedo. The sports games have been disputed as doing little to promote sports, and plenty to benefit the contractors and organizers of the games who are granted multi million contracts to build the sports facilities. History has shown that these fall into disrepair after the games end because there is no money available for maintenance.
Multi million investments will be made this time around to restore the abandoned facilities in La Barranquita, Santiago. The mega sports facilities were built for the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Sports Games and most fell into disrepair after that event for lack of maintenance funding.