AMY GOODMAN: The Obama government has assured Salvadorans it would work with any leader elected, a departure from the Bush administration, which in 2004 threatened to cut off aid to El Salvador if the FMLN won.

BUSH: We are sons & daughters of this struggle; our mission to complete revolution they began. CHAVEZ: He said we are children of Washington & Bolivar. He thinks he is a son of Bolivar. What he is is a son of a - I can't say that word here. (I can!)

Bush, undeterred by protests at every stop on his 5-nation Latin American trip, works to convince Guatemalans that United States is a compassionate nation. It's the same message he delivered earlier at stops in Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia.

“Capitol Hill lawmakers powerless re soaring gasoline prices. Senate Republican proposal to give drivers $100 check to offset higher gasoline prices losing support. No one in White House has any solutions on outright war on middle-class.”