América Latina: ¿clase media de las naciones?

"Fo! my part, 1 thinkAfro.Aúallism, has been superceded, for this form '-ofso1idarity should. be extend-e<l ,to· I;atín Amerka and to ders monde in general." A few months lateran unusual conference ~()ok place in Havana. Cuba was host to an Asian.African-Latín American conference of soUdarity, sponsor-e<l by the Afro-Asían Peoples Solidarity Organiza.. tion. The conference went on from january 3.15, 1966. Eighty-two countries were represente<!. The oul!come was the creatian of a Tri– Continental Peoples' Sa1idarity Organization, with an .,Executive Com– mittee provisionaUy in Havana. The Committee was to consist oE four representat,ives from each 'Of the three continents, with an Executive Secretary. There was a150 to be a Liberation. Committee. The conference in Havana was primari1y of radicals. Its ¡mpad on world ,affaits was negligible. Yet is probably qualifi.es as an im– portant landniark in the evolution of the coneept of the Third Wodd. . Also a Jandmark at the governmental level was a conference which had t'aken place two years earlier in Geneva. This was the fírst United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Latin Arnerica, Asia and Africa had confrontd the developed countries of the worId -:-and demanded ,a transformatíon of the international, tra:de system in the direc,tion of better terms for producers of primary products and more cancern for the needs of the underdeveloped world ~t ;large. The idea of "collective bargaining", which had vastly changedthe lives of the poor in the industríalized countries themselves as part of the history of Iabor unions, was now being tríe<! for the first time at the leve! of inter.state relations. FOT a hrief perlod in 1964 the poor of the whole world had formed a: global "trade union", and were bar– gaining away at a conference table in Geneva. A groping had started foco sorne kind of collective answer to a shared economic weakness. That is why the concept oE the Third World signified a major shift in self-conception .among the countries concerne<!. As we indi– cate<!, Afro-Asianism had been a solidarity of' á shared humiliation as colore<! people. But the concept of the Third World is an attempt ,to trailscend the bohds of color and to emphasize instead the bonds .oí shared poverty. Mamadou Día, the former Prime Minister of Se– negal, caJ.1ed the first section of his book uThe Revolt of the Proleta– dan Nations".· Ideas of Afro_Asían' so1idarity ~ere still implicitjn ,much of Di,a'5 discussion, but the emphasis. was moving from pan– pigmenta:tionali5m, the affinity of color, to pan.proletarianism, the affinity of being economically under-privi:lege<!. Almost as' if he '\Vas c;lefending this shift of emphasis Qía quoted Gabriel Ardant'spower. {ul' line' that the "geography of' hunger .1s also the geography of