Word: alianza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long after the Alianza para el Progreso was launched in 1961, many Latin American governments clung to the convenient belief that it was just an other U.S. giveaway project. "It seemed well-meaning," as one top Latino puts it, "but rather Utopian and probably futile." Now, at last, that view seems to have changed. Last week, as diplomats and economists from a score of nations gathered in the Peruvian capi tal of Lima for the third annual full-dress review of the Alianza, there was encouraging evidence that most Latin American nations now accept its goals and are working...
...Colombia is still the showcase of the Alianza," says a longtime U.S. resident in Bogotá. "But it is a flyspecked showcase." Under the uncertain leadership of President Guillermo León Valencia, Colombia's chronic trade deficit has doubled, reaching a perilous $750 million; the cost of living has soared a staggering 45% ; and more than 10% of the labor force is unemployed. To top those troubles, Colombia's ruling National Front is falling apart...
When John Kennedy stood before the world in 1961 and proposed his Alianza para el Progreso, his dream was a partnership that would strengthen the economic and democratic institutions of Latin America. Since then, the U.S. has sunk $3.7 billion into Latin America. Yet it remains a continent of upheaval, swept by persistent revolution that betrays a discouraging inability to maintain a stable government. Last week's revolt in Bolivia marked the ninth time a military regime has taken power by force in the last four years...
Counting the brutal dictatorships in Cuba and Haiti and the more or less benevolent ones in Paraguay and Nicaragua, 13 of the Hemisphere's 20 nations have been ruled by military force at one time or another since the Alianza was born...
...With such fiscal reforms if he can keep them up, President Robles hopes to rebuild U.S. confidence in Panama and encourage the aid he needs to press on with Alianza programs expanding agriculture, building more schools, homes and roads. The first step in regaining U.S. confidence would be to settle the current canal treaty differences and agree on a plan for a new, sea-level canal to replace the 50-year-old lock system. Both sides privately describe the discussions as "excellent...