The political trip of Fidel Castro: convergences, alterations of two revolutionary processes

Abstract

The article analizes the political trip of Fidel Castro to Chile during the government of the Unidad Popular, the meeting that symbolizes the cooperation and mutual admiration between two revolutionary processes. This is the most extensive venture of a head of state has spent in chile, which undergoes a mutation in the Castric “discurso” aswell as the chilean receptivity and the differences which alienate the Cuban revolution with the chilean way to socialism. Since it is recent history the used sources are primary, which means that mainly political speeches by President Salvador Allende, as well as of Fidel Castro have been used. Because of that the emphasis lies on the historical context in the world during which the political trip was done and the strategies which separate the two exterior ministries in question. The proposition of this paper is elucidate the existing dissonances between both processes in a strategic and discursive way.