UN General Assembly
1990

It is not my intention to repeat the advocacy of union, as was characteristic of the past. Bather, I seek to form the outlines as soon as possible of a Central America of nationalities, which will make it possible to preserve our individual characteristics and at the same time come to terms with the reality of a world that does not forgive isolation or acknowledge self-sufficiency. If great blocks of nations can unite in a new type of nationality whose prime component is a common destiny, it would be absurd for us Central Americans to fail to find suitable formulas to confront in a united way the challenge of modernity, which is increasingly complex and competitive. The world already tends to see Central America as a block, and Central American cannot shirk that vision of itself from the outside world without running the severe risk of retaining a marginal status in history.