Aristide was present at this meeting. In his speech at the Assembly, he said that US action against drug trafficing would help overthrow the military rulers. This Agreement, an international juridical instrument that calls for the prevention, punishment and eradication of all and any act of physical, sexual and physiological violence against the female population of the continent. In the UN's 1994 Report on Human Development, Brazil ranks 63rd among 173 countries that were studied in the report. The study clearly showed the increase in poverty and the disparity between the rich and the poor.
Regional differences place Brazil among the countries with a low rate of human development.
In this UN report the regional differences are clearly shown. The UN report goes on to say that there is a great potential for conflict in the Northeast. The disproportion between the rich regions and the poor regions is greater than that which exists in the province of Chiapas, Mexico, where the rural people started a guerrilla war that had world-wide repercussions, demanding a better quality of life. If Brazil was limited to only the Northeast, it would rank 111th in the quality of life. These numbers in reference to Brazil in the UN report confirm the dreadful quality of life and the concentration of riches that have already been shown in other national research documents.