UN General Assembly
1981

106. The extreme left, relying on the material backing of foreign countries, has also resorted to violence to attempt at any price to retain the abolition of social and economic injustice and to prevent the holding of free elections from ending its opportunity. 107. The "ultras" attempt to erase any possibility of a political, democratic and civil center. Neither side will allow itself to be counted, so as not to reveal its smallness. 108. Unfortunately, some democratic countries have recently committed the error of attempting to impart an undeserved respectability to groups devoted to terrorism and to play the game of those who see a moral equality be-tween the side that is making efforts to offer a political opening through elections leading to legal institutions, and the side that is undertaking efforts to prevent such a process. Believing that they are facilitating peace, they may institutionalize war on Central American soil. El Salvador could relive the tragedy of Spain.