The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.

Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.

We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, 'No,' and presented a peace plan.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

In the United States, resources exist to retrain displaced workers and promote the development of technologies that create new job opportunities for American workers.

We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together, indivisible, an end to the shedding of human blood, which is inseparable from an end to the suppression of human rights.