President Obama visits rebel-controlled territory - El Salvador
Amidst historic uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, President Barack Obama is on a Latin America tour, including a stop in El Salvador, which elected former rebel leaders to the presidency in 2009. The stopover in El Salvador includes a press conference with President Mauricio Funes and a visit to the tomb of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar A. Romero. It's amazing that Obama is visiting El Salvador, given the US history of supporting attacks on the Salvadoran people and an armed rebellion that took place between 1977 and 1992. President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador (left) with President Barack Obama at a joint press conference in San Salvador (3/22/11) . During the Carter, Reagan, and Bush Sr. administrations, all methods of US government and military intervention took place across the Central America region, including the direct invasion of Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. The intervention quashed legitimate rebellions against oppression. 75,000 Salvadorans were killed in the...