América Latina: ¿clase media de las naciones?

sequence; you' are rich' because you are white, rou are white because you are rich. 'this iswhy Marxist analyS'isshoukl always be slightly stretched every time -we have to do with the colonial problem." The ideas' of Frantz Fanon when add,ed to the theoriis oE depen– dency emanating from Latin America, have together constituteclpart of the inrellectual Ieadership of Latin AmerÍca in the -whole struggle for 'Jiberationin the Thiid World.The Latín American structuralistS have been inspired in' their theories by the rieocolonial experience in Latin America itself. Frántz Fanon,' on the other hand, is a culturalist in hiS interpretation of the colonial pred.icament. To understand the re3:lities of the colonial, experience both the structurllll and the culturál dimensions havetobe understoocL Latín America. as a región oI tbe Thinf World provides virtuaUy a paradigmof struc~ural dependency; while Africa provides a striking paradigni of cultural dependency. It is the more fitt,ing thatstructuralist writers likeGunder, Frank have based their .sharp formulations on Latín American' experience, while FrantzFanon, has used Africa as his ultimate paradigm of racial and cultura'! subj~gation. . . Bu.t wh,ile Afriqt has inspired the ideas of Eanon, as weH as, pro– vided his racial ancestry, ,Africans have once again been followe¡:s ratber, than .leaders. Intellectual micro-dependency continues to maní. fest itself in the Afrkan response to these theoretical .and ¡deological traffk indicators provided by the other parts of the Third World. - In addition to theorists of dependency, and the ideas of Frantz Fanon, thereis also the ideological experiment of Castro's Cuba, This last completes thetriumvirate of intellectual ex.ampJ.es that Latín Ame– rka has provided' to the African continent. We mentioned eadier that behindGunder Frank's radicalization w~s the expérience of the Cuban revoJution, just as behin~r Frantz Fanon's r.adicalization was the experience of the Algerian revolution. Tpe two revolutionstoget~er merged· into a: heritage of radical Afro- Latinism. . ., But unlike AIgeria, Cuba ha,s continued to command. revolutiori!lry admiration: For Africa i.t does provide in organization:al miracle: The~ re is a possibility tqat Cuba might, no", influence organizational' changes in a country lik~ Angola. <;uban lessons might ¡nelude. efficient ways of org,anizing limited medical servic,es, more equitable ways oI'dis'; tributing other national resource, more relevant wiys of giving thé masses a sense of particí'pation, more solid ways of constructing an egaMtariansociety.· .. . . ~Ílt, two ~hing~,remain uncertain. Can Cuba's org:anizational suc'– cess' be adequately transplant~' anta .African soil? Secondly, can .CiJba's organization!t1 success adequately survive the island'seconomic. :re~in~ tegr.ation with the rest of the Western hemisphere in the years 'ahead? 78