Take Action: Call your Representative to Say: "No More Corporate Lawsuits against Countries!" http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=817&Itemid=1

President Obama will visit El Salvador on March 23 to discuss economic assistance for El Salvador's struggling economy - while a US mining corporation sues El Salvador for $77 million dollars on the very same date. Pacific Rim has invoked the "investor protections" provisions of the US-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), claiming to be owed enormous "lost profits" because the Salvadoran government and people rejected its mining permits in defense of the environment. The next phase of Pacific Rim's lawsuit begins March 23 at a World Bank tribunal while President Obama is in El Salvador. Representatives Baldwin (WI), DeFazio (OR), Payne (NJ) and Michaud (ME) have authored a letter calling on the President to fulfill his campaign promise and strike the corporate "right" to sue El Salvador or any other country from US trade agreements