increasinqly acute external-debt crisis - a debt whose total amount is clearly unpayable and which, despite the apparent increasinq political awareness of the problem, continues to worsen. Thus, there is a constant transfer of resources from the developinq countries to the developed countries~ for Latin America this reached the astoundinq fiqure of $25 billion in 1989. For the time beinq, no real and definitive solution to this problem has been proposed. BCT/jq A/S-18/PV.6 124-125 CMr • · Malmierca ·Peal i; ·Cuba) It is verv difficult to make qreat proqress when the preva ilinq international economic order makes it passible for the world's larqest economic Power, the United States, to exert economic coercion upon smaller States by aPPlyinq a total economic embarqo, includinq food and medicine, such as the one my country is enduring - despite the fact that such embargoes violate the rules of international coexistence and have been condemned in many resolutions adopted by the United Nations, the Movement of Non-Aliqned Countries and other international forums. It will be impossible to encourage national investment and achieve industrial development in the developing countries -no matter how firm their intentions are - if a transfer of resources and technoloqy is not provided in real terms, without conditions or restrictions, a transfer not geared to the profit m:>tive J and if there is no sharing of the scientific proqress and breakthroughs introduced daily by the developed countries into their productive sphere; if the transnationals' maniPUlations of these breakthrouqhs -for instance, throuqh the prices of the comm:>di ties that they export to the developing countries, and the reverse net transfer of resources -are not restrained. BHS/jq A/S-18/PV. 6 126 (Mr. Malmierca Peol i, Cuba) Nor can we expect major proqress if there is no co-oPeration in the 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the debt crisis in developing countries, particularly in Latin America, and the impact of economic coercion by developed countries on their economic development. The speaker also mentions the need for cooperation in the international economic order to achieve real progress. These issues are closely related to the topics of international trade, economic development, and the transfer of resources and technology between developed and developing countries.

**Category**
International trade, Economic development