United or Dominated (Speech delivered on November 11, 1953 at the National War College)

Abstract

Human organizations, throughout all time, have undoubtedly been creating successive groupings and regrouping. The fundamental problem of the future is a problem of economic base and foundation, and the struggle of the future will become more and more economical, due to a greater overpopulation and a greater superindustrialization. There is no doubt that our continent, especially South America, is the area of the world where, due to its lack of population and its lack of extractive exploitation, the world's largest reserve of raw materials and food is still. This would indicate to us that the future is ours and that in the future struggle we are marching with an extraordinary advantage. But it is precisely in these circumstances that our greatest danger lies, because we are threatened that one day the overpopulated and superindustrialized countries, which have extraordinary power, will play that power to strip us of the elements that we have. It is this circumstance that has led our government to face head on the possibility of a real and effective continental union, starting with Chile, Brazil and Argentina, to face a life in common and to plan, also, a defense in common.