UN General Assembly
1956

117. Thus the Bolivian revolution has made the Indian a free human being, master of his own fate, by restoring to him the ownership of the land which he lost more than 400 years ago; it has made him an architect of the new Bolivia because he can now take an active part in political life through universal suffrage; it has made him capable of helping to forge the historic destiny of Bolivia, for it has given him access to Western culture through the vast primary and fundamental educational programmes established under the Bolivian Education Code, while at the same time he can contribute to the national spirit the tradition of the magnificent foundations of one of the oldest cultures in America. In this gigantic undertaking, my country has had the benefit of international understanding in the form of an educational development scheme under the United States Point Four Programme, the Andean Mission of the International Labour Organisation and United Nations technical assistance.