Tell Congress and Obama to take a stand today: corporations should not sue countries! http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=813&Itemid=1

President Obama will be visiting El Salvador on March 22 to discuss new bilateral economic programs for El Salvador's struggling economy. While the US offers economic assistance with one hand, US mining corporations are suing El Salvador for $200 million dollars with the other. Pacific Rim and Commerce Group have invoked the so-called "investor protections" provisions of the US-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), claiming to be owed enormous sums of "lost profits" simply because the Salvadoran government and people have rejected their mining permits in defense of the environment.