In an address to delegates of sixty-three nations at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Santiago one year before the coup, Allende stressed the need to rectify an unfair international division of labour based on ‘age-old exploitation’ and a ‘dehumanized concept of mankind’. Chile’s delegate to the UNCTAD conference was Hernán Santa Cruz, who had struggled decades earlier to secure the social and economic rights in the UDHR. At the UNCTAD conference, Santa Cruz stressed that the realisation of the UDHR’s social, economic and cultural rights required a just international economic order.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 319