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Kennedy's administration departed from traditional policy by creating the Alliance for Progress. The basic argument was that the longterm stability of Latin American governments would require better social conditions. The original objectives of the Alliance charter included a more equitable distribution of income, reduced unemployment, agrarian reform, guaranteed, education, health care, and housing. The Alliance was doomed to failure in these objectives from the beginning...
With this theory, the U.S. government could bypass any change aimed specifically at the lower classes, such as agrarian reform and equalized distribution of income, which would be touchy politically. The poverty of Latin Americans is so drastic to begin with that the incremental change from "filtering" would barely affect conditions. Since the inception of the program, the population has grown faster than any advantages arising from the growth of business. Though evidence is clear that economic development does not benefit the lower classes, it remains the cornerstone of State Department policy...
...brought under control. But it must be remembered that the inflation is due at least in part to pressure from the United States and from those in the upper classes who have pulled their money out of the country, and to the initial disruptive effects of the government's agrarian reform. Moreover, since Allende has taken office, the buying power of the lower classes and working classes has actually increased, owing to increased wages. Of course, higher wages have made goods more expensive; but the end result has been to redistribute income...
RHODES IS MORE than just another mad apocalyptic genius. There is a basic country-storyteller streak in him, and a good grounding in the blunt candor of the agrarian Midwest. His lack of urbanity is replaced by a prodigious experience: we believe that he cannot imagine people really talking any other way than without pretense. With a natural sense of rough, monotonal dialogue and plodding, deadpan humor, he can do some amazing things. At one point Reuben is looking for work. He sees a want ad for a job as a farm hand, and goes to visit the old farmer...
...interdependent with the local community: Could it not be made to serve as a precedent or model for a similar type of arrangement in the underdeveloped world? As a strategy for development, the plan offers certain definite advantages. In the first place, it would tend to preserve the traditional agrarian social structures of underdeveloped areas more or less intact, and would not produce the kind of dislocations and political instabilities inherent in current attempts to create urban proletariats in the midst or rural poverty: nor would it hold out the false promise of urban affluence, for which the resources probably...