Leaked Embassy cables prove U.S. intervention in El Salvador’s 2006 and 2009 elections http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=839&Itemid=1

For years, CISPES has denounced U.S. intervention in El Salvador’s electoral processes as an egregious violation of the country’s national sovereignty and the self-determination of the people of El Salvador. Whether it is through direct statements by high-ranking State Department officials that attempt to sway Salvadoran voters’ decisions or through the manipulation of international aid, economic and trade policy, and the stability of Salvadoran immigrants living in the U.S., the leaked cables demonstrate, as El Faro says, “the constant effort of the Embassy to make the political tempo of the bilateral relationship coincide with the Salvadoran electoral calendar."