Background information: This is a paraphrased excerpt What is the main idea of the passage?
from a speech given by Fidel Castro entitled "Second
Declaration of Havana."
A few strong nations held economic and political
power in the global world.
What is the history of Cuba but the history of Latin
America? What is the history of Latin America but the
Cuba needed to develop a capitalist economy.
history of Asia, Africa, and the islands of the Pacific
People had to work for the ruling class in a capitalist
Ocean? What is the history of the peoples of these lands
economy.
but one of cruel exploitation by the imperialist world? At
the end of the previous century and at the beginning of A few economically dependent countries were
the current one, a small group of nations that were
strong enough to rule other territories.
economically developed split up the world among
themselves, forcing their economic and political
domination on two-thirds of the world's population.
People had to work for the ruling classes among the
nations that had set up a developed capitalist economy.
Fidel Castro, 1962