Obama Trade Document Leaked

Well, it's already happeneing in some parts of America's sphere of influence. It's been a long time for me since school, but doesn't the Monroe doctrine hove ANYTHING to do with this? From the link above.

In early June, a tribunal at the World Bank agreed to hear a case involving similar foreign investment standards, in which El Salvador banned cyanide-based gold mining on the basis of objections from the Catholic Church and environmental activists. If the World Bank rules against El Salvador, it could overturn the nation's domestic laws at the behest of a foreign corporation.

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Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine is a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention.[SUP][1][/SUP] The Doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. The Doctrine was issued at a time when nearly all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved independence from the Spanish Empire (except Bolivia, which became independent in 1825, and Cuba and Puerto Rico). The United States, working in agreement with Britain, wanted to guarantee no European power would move in...[SUP][2][/SUP]

...The intent and impact of the Monroe Doctrine persisted with only minor variations for almost two centuries. Its primary objective was to free the newly independent colonies of Latin America from European intervention and control that would make the New World a battleground for the Old. The doctrine put forward that the New World and the Old World were to remain distinctly separate spheres of influence, for they were composed of entirely separate and independent nations.[SUP][3][/SUP]

WThis is a pretty common occurrence. I'm a geologist/environmental scientist, so im more into facts than politics. But countries forcing trade embargo's through the world bank has been going on since the 80s or 90s if im not mistaken. Take China for example, they have a lot of rare and precious earth metals, but they way they extract them out of the earth is pretty much the most environmentally toxic method available. This is in disagreement with the Kyoto protocol, which China agreed to; HOWEVER if anyone EVER says anything to china about their questionable actions they simply threaten to stop trading earth metals/cheap electronics through embargos. Now what country is going to trade away their access to the latest and cheapest processing chips over an environmental issue that isnt even occurring in their borders? Not many....