UN General Assembly
1969

convinced that so long as they continue to exist, our people will continue to be the victims of exploitation and ignorance, because we have seen that both these factors lead to the concentration of power in the hands of small privileged groups, while other vast sectors remain on the fringe of society and, finally, because we know full well that so long as we remain under-developed and dependent, we shall never be masters of our own destiny as a free and fully sovereign nation. 48. Thus the essential features of our revolution can be summed up in two words: what is taking place in Peru is a nationalist revolution. The status quo is being shaken to its very roots. We are changing the face and the traditional structure of Peru; but we are doing so by creating, not importing solutions, by proclaiming the right, the responsibility and the duty to decide, by and for ourselves, the direction and the means of this beneficial change. Peru will never again be the country it was prior to the revolution. Of