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...find out what is going wrong with the Alliance for Progress, the OAS last November commissioned two distinguished Latin Americans-Juscelino Kubitschek, former President of Brazil, and Alberto Lleras Camargo, who had just finished his term as President of Colombia. Their separate reports last week made disheartening reading...
Silence Preferred. In the view of Kubitschek, who ran up a huge deficit in Brazil to build his beloved back-country capital, Brasília, the U.S. is to blame for not delivering as much aid as it seemed to have promised. "It would have been better to have had silence," said he, "than to have spread seeds of hope that will never grow and bear fruit." As presently constituted, Kubitschek went on, the Alliance is little more than a label. "I protest against using the name Alianza as a label for projects of all sorts, some of which...
Both ex-Presidents agree that a multilateral leadership of the Alianza is needed to end what Kubitschek calls "this frustrating monologue." They want to set up a new Inter-American Development Committee to run the Alianza. The committee would consist of six representatives of American nations, including a permanent U.S. delegate. Kubitschek's committee would be led by the executive secretary of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council, Lleras' by a president elected every five years. Says Lleras: 'He would become the figure that the Alianza is lacking so that its image may cease...
Another Parliament? Kubitschek-the man who started Brasilia in the wilds, and mortgaged his country's present to its future-favors an emphasis on developing basic industries, with only a nod to immediate attempts to lift the standard of living for Latin America's masses. That, he argued, should come later, after the industrial base is secure. Lleras believes the reverse, argues for priority to short-term social projects such as housing, public health, roads and schools. "Our purposes are the same," said Kubitschek tactfully, "but our ways of looking at problems are sometimes different...
...matter Kubitschek and Lleras had no difficulty in agreeing: the need for more Latin American participation in the Alliance if it is to succeed at all. In their formal report to the OAS, due later this month, they are expected to bring up the idea of a "parliament" of all nations participating in the Alliance, which would have authority to establish Alliance priorities, approve projects, coordinate with government spending, help arrange commodity agreements and currency stabilization. Advising the parliament would be a staff of experts, patterned after the European commission (now OECD) that coordinated Marshall Plan aid. "Without such...