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Since the program started 17 months ago, 22 U.S. states have joined, and 13 more are expected to sign up by the end of this year. Alianza officials in Washington establish the first contacts between the state governments and their Latin American opposite numbers. Utah is paired with Bolivia because both have a mountainous, mining economy; Illinois is matched with the big Brazilian state of São Paulo, whose booming highly industrialized capital city is Latin America's closest facsimile of Chicago. Most of the U.S. states then send a delegation down south to see how they...
...Alliance for Progress, Johnson asked for $580 million this year-$70 million more than Congress appropriated in 1964. To justify the increase, the President cited convincing statistics to show that the "governments and people of Latin America are accepting increasing responsibility for their own development" thanks to the Alianza's encouragement...
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...
...hemisphere's slim, hard-won gains in housing, education, health, and food production. In many countries, inflation seems incurable. As always, Latin economies desperately need foreign investment capital. But for all their frustrations, the Latin American nations succeeded this year for the first time in meeting the Alianza's goal of an overall 3% per capita product growth rate. Latin American export earnings rose 8%. And paced by the U.S., which has already invested $3.7 billion in the Alianza, there has been a notable increase in foreign aid to the member nations...
More important perhaps than any statistical balance sheet was what seemed to be a new awareness of what the Alianza can and should be. As Brazil's Minister of Planning Roberto Campos observed: "Neither our fate nor our salvation are in the stars. They are within us ourselves." By meeting's end, nearly everyone shared a new, if guarded sense of optimism about the Alianza's prospects. As Thomas Mann, U.S. Under Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, pointed out, "The Alliance has given us a growing awareness of the social and economic problems we all face...