Word: progreso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That criticism is all too valid. From Teddy Roosevelt's big-stick diplomacy to Franklin Roosevelt's genial Good Neighbor policy to John Kennedy's ambitious but disappointing Alianza para el Progreso, the U.S. has long tended to treat Latin America like an entity. In fact, the area never has been and never will be a package deal...
During this entire period, the Alianza para el Progreso remained the top conversational subject in U.S.-Latin American relations. The Alianza pledged $20 billion in aid (mostly U.S.) over ten years, plus a highly ambitious investment of another $8 billion annually from Latin American business and government. As its goal, the Alianza aimed at increasing the per-capita growth rate of each country by a whopping 2.5% a year. To get the cash, each Latin American country would submit a blueprint for social reforms-from schools to housing to tax collection to cutting up the wealthy landowners' huge holdings...
...sort of abandoned-by-Britain feeling. Cuba's Castro and Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent well-wishers. The U.S. substituted AID Director Fowler Hamilton for busy Arthur Goldberg, hoping to interest Trinidad in joining the Organization of American States and so becoming eligible for Alianza para el Progreso assistance. Already receiving $1,100,000 a year from AID, Premier Williams had no hesitation in pronouncing Trinidad "unequivocally west of the Iron Curtain...
...Britain whether or not it joins the Common Market (although European observers suspect that De Gaulle is deep-down opposed to British membership). In his turn, Kennedy explained the principle?financial help for countries that will instigate social reforms?of his ambitious Alianza para el Progreso in Latin America (TIME, Feb. 24). De Gaulle suggested that a Common Market observer would attend the Alianza's first conference in Punta del Este, Uruguay, next month. When Kennedy stressed the need for France and other NATO allies to join in multilateral assistance pacts, De Gaulle cited the aid, amounting to nearly...
...leftist ones. Kennedy last week hoped impartially that the victims of Castro and Trujillo, "the people of Cuba and the Dominican Republic, will soon rejoin the society of free men." ¶ Latin Americans have as keen an ear as anyone else for a catchy slogan. Kennedy gave them one: "Progreso, Si! Tirania, No! [Progress, Yes! Tyranny, No!]." Time to Mobilize. Through both of Kennedy's messages ran the insistent theme that U.S. aid must be accompanied by self-help on the part of the Latin Americans. Only they, he warned, "can mobilize their resources and modify their social patterns...