UN General Assembly
1982

making of our own history into our own hands, others will do it for us in their own way, which implies an ominous fate for a people which respects itself: intervention. The historic commitment of the present Government of Guatemala is to consolidate the peace and security of the nation; to solve the serious economic crisis which is affecting Guatemala, as indeed it is affecting the entire world, because of an economic recession which in Central America has become aggravated by internal causes; to restructure and incorporate large sectors that are representative of the country and which have been unjustly left out in the past and have not participated in the democratic decision making of the nation, but which under a new and safe electoral system will for the first time freely exercise their right of universal suffrage, thus ensuring the self determination of the people of Guatemala and ruling out the electoral fraud which in the past has been the means of diverting our democracy from its true course; to