08.09.2024, Moscow.
Latin American countries, having won freedom in their national liberation wars, had to integrate into the global division of labor, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist and philosopher Sergey Kurginyan said on August 9 on the program Conversation with a Sage on the Zvezda radio station.
Cuban revolutionary and leader Fidel Castro returned to Cuba from Mexico where he organized the 26th of July Movement together with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara, expecting that he would die fighting against the military junta led by President Fulgencio Batista. However, he successfully defended the independence of the country in this national liberation war.
“Fidel went by a small ship to die there, thinking he would never come back because Batista would cut him into pieces, because he loved his people, and he could not tolerate [what was happening in his country],” the analyst explained.
Sergey Kurginyan, explaining what Fidel Castro did, quoted American poet Walt Whitman’s verses, “I feel the measureless shame and humiliation of my race it becomes all mine.”
The political scientist also explained that after the victory in the national liberation struggle the leaders of Latin America faced a question what to do next.
“What could one do next in these countries that found themselves in this real life plantation hell?” the analyst asked. “They could remove oligarchy, they could shift resources, what Chávez brilliantly did. But what next?”
Answering his question, Sergey Kurginyan noted that the Latin American countries, after they won their freedom, had to integrate into the global division of labor in its resource sector. And, as they were overcoming “the hell of unprecedented, humiliating poverty,” they allocated their resources to where they had to allocate them.
In this sense, Venezuela cannot be an autarchy like Stalin’s Soviet Union, Kurginyan concluded. “It is part of the global division of labor.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
