ABSTRACT
Fidel Castro himself has somewhat altered his public attitude toward other Latin American governments. During the 1960s, he used to refer to democratically elected regimes in Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, and Chile as—"oligarchical," no more worthy of respect than the harsher military regimes of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The number one problem of Latin America is the independence and sovereignty of the Latin American countries. The number one problem is the solution of their great economic and social problems, the solution of the foreign debt problem, the solution of unfair trade relations, and the need for the establishment of a new international economic order approved. Some Latin solidarity with Castro is based on a faulty reading of Cuban history, particularly the assumption that the Cuban dictator was pushed into the arms of the Soviet Union by a harsh and uncomprehending United States.
