UN General Assembly
1962

178. That initiative found concrete expression in the "Declaration to the Peoples of America", adopted about a year ago by the Punta del Este Economic Conference. The peoples of the Americas have undertaken, with the assistance of their powerful northern neighbour, to seek a comprehensive solution to the problems facing Latin America through a series of measures to be carried out over the next ten years. These measures include, in the economic field, an increase in personal income, agrarian reform and diversification of national infrastructures, and in the social field, a large-scale campaign against illiteracy, the reform of secondary and higher education and the building of decent housing. 179. It would be difficult for us to pass judgement, after so short a period of time, on the results achieved by this vast undertaking or to share the opinion of those who, after only one year, brand it a failure.