Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.
The Central American isthmus is a region of great contrasts, but also of heartening unison. Millions of men and women share dreams of freedom and progress.
Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.
I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.
In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to fighting poverty, all of the world's population would enjoy basic social services, such as education, health care, nutrition, reproductive health, clean water and sanitation.
Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.
