Editing Understanding Fidel Castro (section)

== Conclusion ==

When readers think beyond Marxism and to the challenges against establishing an autonomous Cuba, we see similar challenges confronting José Martí and Fidel Castro, and a link between the former’s writing and the latter’s policies becomes clear. Using this analytical exercise is not an idea of my own, but comes from Enrico Mario Santí, one of the earliest members of the Teoleogical School. Scholars have called his school of thought “teleological” because it asks readers to think about the ultimate end or goal Martí and Castro sought. To borrow a phrase from Santí’s polemic published in the Miami Herald, readers ought to “pensar a Martí,” or think through Martí. In doing so, readers find the Cuban nation in danger of exploitation and foreign domination. Castro faced the same reality. In a sense, Martí laid out the ideas for resisting such pressures, and Castro had the authority to implement them.
If readers truly want to understand Fidel Castro, they ought to understand Martí. The connections between one’s literature and the other’s policies offer interesting insight on a very influential force in America. Policy makers and other thinkers will find that insight helpful. Fidel’s Cuban Revolution still inspires and influences a number of leaders in Latin America. Very recently, the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org released a diplomatic cable supporting this claim. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s ex-wife, common law, told diplomats that he was deeply influenced by Castro and Guevara.  Bolivian President Evo Morales and other prominent Latin American politicians have made similar statements. It is very important that we elucidate the connection between Martí’s vast written record and Castro’s radical revolutionary policies. Through subsequent discoveries, readers might learn a lot about a new era of Latin American politics because many Latin America countries and their Romantic leaders are asserting agency through radical ideas (la trincheria), but even by force, as Martí begged for in “Nuestra América”, as Castro did with the Cuban revolutionary state, and as both men were willing to die for—Castro was just really lucky. 
	The broader implications of re-reading Martí to improve the reader’s understanding are limitless. Martí’s connection to Castro has been proved, and sources are emerging that connect Castro to present-day, radical, Latin American leadership. Understanding these three connected forces—Martí, Castro and the present era of anti-U.S. Latin American politics— is imperative if people from all nations of the America hope to normalize the North-South relations. The Cuban-American conflict is one of many strained relations between the United States and the Latin American republics. In ignoring an objective anthology literature, we perpetuate the strains. Yet we Latin Americans and North Americans would be better off if we maintained a healthier political relationship and more vibrant cultural exchange. Forget Marxism; understanding Martí’s creations and Castro’s applications will contribute to much required, long overdue, hemispheric reconciliation.

I will edit and improve this in a few hours.

--[[User:Marcus|Marcus]] 15:48, 6 January 2011 (CST)