UN General Assembly
1959

95. The eighth meeting of ECLA, which took place in the Middle of this year at Panama City, showed that the establishment of a Latin-American common market was regarded as a clear necessity for the development of the various countries in the region. 96. In connexion with the problem of under-development we Latin Americans attach the greatest importance to the initiative of the President of Brazil, Mr. Juscelino Kubitschek designed as it is to re-stimulate the unity and solidarity of our countries and their contribution to the cause of peace, through a policy — the so-called "Operation Pan-America" — intended to expedite the concerted development of our economies, as the most appropriate and effective weapon against poverty, Ignorance and distress among our peoples and in order to prevent dissatisfaction and desperation from leading them towards foreign ideologies alien to their historical, religious and cultural background but undoubtedly attractive in their fallacious presentation of an imaginary world of happiness to the masses' astonished eyes.