UN General Assembly
1963

89. This certainly did not occur to an equal degree everywhere in Latin America, which is not a sociological unit in spite of its common history, religion and culture. It was, however, the general rule in those countries which I described on another occasion as " stratified" —that is, having a series of social classes overlying one another like geological strata. It is also true to say that in some countries democratic systems of government were often built on weak feudal socioeconomic bases,