UN General Assembly
1962

29. Add to this the public health measures; which give our country a privileged position in this continent, and the fundamental achievements in our education policy, which now enables us to say, among other things, with pride and deep satisfaction, that in this continent swarming with uneducated people, in this continent where some countries have alarming illiteracy figures, Cuba, thanks to its revolution, is now a country without illiterates. 30. But this we have had to achieve and carry out harassed at every turn by aggression from all sides while the literacy campaign was getting underway, it was marked by some dramatic and painful incidents, since the counter-revolutionary bands, organized and armed by the United States Government, even went so far as to murder young teachers, mere students, who had gone into our countryside to eradicate illiteracy.