Letters to President Obama on the occasion of his trip to El Salvador http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=819&Itemid=1

On your upcoming trip to Latin America, we ask that you state your support for renegotiation of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and for El Salvador’s request to have dismissed a pending CAFTA investor-state arbitration suit challenging El Salvador’s environmental and safety policies relating to metals mining concessions.  

Big News: Congressional action against CAFTA! http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=820&Itemid=1

One of the demands is to repeal CAFTA, the free trade agreement between the US and Central America that gives corporations free reign to exploit the people and natural resources of the region--all in the name of profit. And if a country dares to take a stand against these injustices-- as El Salvador bravely did when they denied two US mining companies the permits to mine for gold--those corporations can sue the government for hundreds of millions of dollars at the World Bank under CAFTA's "investor protection" clause.