Obama’s Final Stopover: Ignoring CAFTA Protests in San Salvador http://www.coha.org/obama’s-final-stopover-ignoring-cafta-protests-in-san-salvador/#more-12225

Leah Wilson, a volunteer in San Salvador with the Washington-based Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) put President Obama’s choice on the matter in stark terms: “Does the government and the people of a country have the right to decide what kind of policies they want to protect their own population? Or can a transnational company blackmail them against their will?” Perhaps President Obama believes that he can ignore his promise to limit investor rights, since the issue lies outside the purview of most U.S. citizens. To the citizens of El Salvador and other CAFTA nations however, the issue could not be more consequential. For them, national sovereignty itself is at stake.