President Obama has cut short a Latin America tour to return to Washington for meetings on the military intervention in Libya. On Tuesday, President Obama met with El Salvador President Mauricio Funes and announced a $200 million pledge to aid the fight against Central American drug cartels. Following his meeting with Funes, Obama visited the tomb of Óscar Arnulfo Romero, the Salvadoran archbishop assassinated by El Salvador’s U.S.-backed military in 1980. Hundreds of people meanwhile took to the streets of San Salvador to protest Obama’s visit.

Protester: “We, the social and popular organizations, are making our presence heard to repudiate the visit of President Barack Obama. We know he is the Yankee representative of the capitalist empire in the United States.”