UN General Assembly
1988

We cannot disregard the fact that the sacrifices which the debt is demanding of the Latin American democracies might become a new pretext for succumbing to the temptation of totalitarianism. The danger which this situation poses to Central America strengthens our hope that the international financial community will realize that, because the countries of our region are very small and have barely begun their development and because some of them have suffered the ravages of nature and of violence, the region needs to be rebuilt and to grow in order to overcome subhuman conditions Therefore we hope that the creditors will take an especially broad view of the situation, and we trust that that hope will not be in, vain.