On February 4, 1962, Fidel Castro delivered a speech called the “Second Declaration of Havana” in Havana, Cuba. It came after the United States had begun to give secret assistance to Cubans opposing Castro. By that time, Castro had begun to adopt Marxist-Leninist principles, shown in the words he speaks here.
In the speech, Castro rails against the lust of the United States for riches, as well as their colonizing past and present. He expresses frustration that while Latin American countries are left to flounder post-World War II, the United States has gone on to become a world power using Latin America-supplied goods. He theorizes that it will cause hatred for the United States to expand globally.
“ What is Cuba’s history but that of Latin America? What is the history of Latin America but the history of Asia, Africa, and Oceania? And what is the history of all these peoples but the history of the cruelest exploitation of the world by imperialism? At the end of the last century and the beginning of the present, a handful of economically developed nations had divided the world among themselves subjecting two thirds of humanity to their economic and political domination Humanity was forced to work for the dominating classes of the group of nations which had a developed capitalist economy. “
Castro, Fidel. Speech. The Second Declaration of Havana. Presented at The Second Declaration of Havana, February 4, 1962. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1962castro.asp.