ABSTRACT
Internal colonialism is one of the structures of Latin American underdevelopment which must be broken in order to get out of the vicious cycle of poverty, backwardness, external dependence and internal domination. In order to maintain and increase the rate of economic growth and give the appearance of development as measured by statistical averages, it is probable that Latin American leaders will continue favoring and devoting special attention to the modern sector of the economy. More than any other social groups, peasants in Latin America have suffered the most violent, systematic repression. Rarely in history has there existed over an entire continent, as there is in Latin America, such a generalized awareness among the most diverse social groups as to the necessity of carrying out major modifications of the political and social structure. The revolutionary alternative in Latin America cannot take place, as Che Guevara had already foreseen, without a new morality and a new kind of human being.
