But the work in the Chilean armed forces was not suspended. At the same time, Schneider, a professor in the Academy of War, was active in introducing new courses on economics, politics, government administration, foreign commerce, the politics of industrialization, the history of the Chilean political parties, agrarian and urban reform, banking policies, and so on. The quotes from the sociologist Roy Hansen's work came from a photographic copy of the mimeographed English version that is kept in the Academy of War's library in Santiago. A colonial country's armed forces had been prepared to cope with a possible crisis in colonization brought about by the failure of the civilian organizations dependent on the oligopolies, or by excessive pressure from the labourers, peasants, and office workers to disrupt the system. The chief cause of political unrest in Latin America is poverty.
Poverty is produced by an unjust distribution of wealth.
The United States has an obligation to prevent subversion in Latin America by aiding us with development programs. The problem of economic development in each country has ceased to be one belonging solely to the politicians or certain civilian groups. A weak country has a weak military apparatus. An economically strong country has strong armed forces. Thus, when politicians prove incompetent to develop a country's economy, the military is obligated to intervene to prevent the national sovereignty from being endangered.