UN General Assembly
1969

becomes the ordinary method of bringing people to reason, and when there are no rapid means of preventing arbitrary action, the integration process is definitely suffering from a chronic disease. Worse than the disease itself is the lack of concern for the patient’s recovery. 123. Examples about to prove what I have just said. The most recent — but not the only — example of the arbitrary violation of the Central American treaties and inter-American agreements is the Honduran decree closing the Pan American Highway to the passage of Salvadorian goods and vehicles bound for Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. This is the Pan American Highway, planned many decades ago aS a continental undertaking and financed by a co-operative effort. The closing of this highway is yet another abuse of sovereignty and constitutes deliberate aggression. Here you have an example how the Central American Common Market operates, despite the existing legal instruments. 124. This is, I repeat, the Pan American Highway, which was conceived and planned to serve all the countries on the