UN General Assembly
1963

143. Today, with the resounding failure of the Alliance for Progress —Washington's recipe to counteract the attraction of the example of the Cuban revolution on the other peoples of the continent— there is a return to the dark period of military dictatorships and military coups, hacked by Thompson machine-guns and Sherman tanks, which have been responsible for so much bloodshed, suffering, misery and backwardness in Latin America over the years. The farce of democracy staged by most of the Latin American Governments has not helped them resolve the problem of how to stifle the demand of the impoverished masses in our continent for justice and, as in the past, those Governments take shelter behind the wall of bayonets provided by the military, and call to their aid mercenaries avid for gold and power increasing numbers of whom, by strange coincidence, have been trained in the military schools and camps of the United States.