UN General Assembly
1986

The democratic awakening of Central America is not easy and is plagued with obstacles. Ir some countries, the military, accustomed to dictatorships, appear to to dog, in a sinister way, the hesitant first steps of Governments elected by their people. In other cases, the deep mistrust of brothers and sisters, springing from the same land, mushrooms into guerrilla warfare. The call to an internal reconciliation through democratic means does not appear, for the time being, to be producing tangible effects. Brothers continue to kill brothers; Central American blood continues to be drained. The problems described thus far appear overwhelming. But there is more. The heroic struggle for freedom by the people of Nicaragua culminating in the overthrow of the tyrant Somoza has followed a political path that does not conform to the desires of its people for liberty, nor to their hopes for a full and vigorous democracy, which so many countries had fully supported earlier in their fight against dictatorship.