"The first observation is that our community is not homogeneous but divided up into peoples that have grown rich and peoples that are still poor. Yet more important is to recognize that even among the poor nations there are, unfortunately, some which are poorer still; and that many survive under particularly unbearable conditions. Their economy is dominated by foreign powers; outsiders hold all or part of their territory; they still suffer the yoke of colonialism; or a majority of their population is exposed to the violence of racial prejudice and of apartheid. Worse still, in many of our nations deep social disparities oppress the masses and benefit only the privileged few. The second observation is that the toil and the resources of the poorer nations pay for the prosperity of the affluent peoples. Our business here is not to harp on old injustices but to show that the world trade structure, as it operates today, has become an instrument of pillage by means of which the less developed nations are sucked dry."
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Salvador Allende, April 13, 1972, as quoted in Historic Documents of 1972. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
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