UN General Assembly
1983

108. Thus they proposed to undermine the struggle of the peoples of the region, and in particular the struggle of the people of El Salvador. Crushing the Nicaraguan revolution—according to the thinking of the United States Administration's strategists—would mean crushing the possibilities for change in Central America and would maintain unchanged the situation of injustice and lack of freedom. They decided, therefore, to carry out a military encirclement of the fighting people of El Salvador, aimed too against the liberated people of Nicaragua. From that time on the American military presence in the region has been on the increase, openly in El Salvador and Honduras and covertly in Costa Rica. 109. Immediately there followed actions by the guards of the Somoza regime. Armed, financed and directed by the United States Government through the CIA and the Pentagon, they began their criminal operations against our people from their bases of operations in Honduran territory.