In Costa Rica, more than 100,000 people rallied on Sunday to protest the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States. It was one of the largest protests ever in Costa Rica, which has a population of about four million people. Voters in Costa Rica head to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to ratify CAFTA. Opponents say the so-called free trade deal will threaten the livelihoods of Costa Rican farmers and will limit the country’s sovereignty.

Protester: “We don’t believe that we should sacrifice in a rough or dishonest way the social state of law which Costa Rica has enjoyed for so many years. And with this pact that they are trying to sell to other nations and in the interests of very few, that is what we are opposed to.”

The governments of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic ratified the free trade deal but did so without holding a vote.