UN General Assembly
1966

197. The American hemisphere is now the object of a series of attacks designed to destroy representative democracy and its institutions, and Latin America is feeling the consequences of these attacks in its living flesh; but in spite of the tragedy they represent, there exists a firm determination to defend our national and collective system and there is increasingly effective co-ordination — as has been shown by the setbacks suffered by the saboteurs and guerrillas as a result of the actions taken — to ensure that all the communities of the hemisphere may maintain their purpose to acquire for themselves bread and liberty in abundance, in order to defend their institutions with determination and energy. The fact has been overlooked that real development occurs more rapidly in systems of representative democracy than under any system based on force.