"Latin American countries have squandered their resources on inappropriate priorities. They have lavished on their armies the money they should have lavished on their children.
Aside from Colombia, no country in Latin America faces an ongoing or imminent armed conlict. And yet each year, the region spends $60 billion on arms and soldiers- double what it spend just five years ago. Why? Who is going to attack whom?
The enemies of the people in the region are hunger, ignorance, inequality, disease, crime, and environmental degradation. They are internal, and they can be defeated only through smart public policy"
" We owe it to the victims of dictatorships, who during the twentieth century wrote with their own blood the saddest pages in Latin American history. We owe it to the survivors of oppression and torture. We owe it to those who saw their worst fears realized in the presence of a soldier"
Oscar Arias
President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and 2006 to 2010
Nobel Peace Prize in 1987
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