Word: progreso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prayer parodies also seem to be in vogue in Castro's Cuba. Last week Radio Progreso in Havana broadcast an interview with a campesino named Apolinar Hernandez, 60, who out of gratitude for his new life since the glorious revolution is teaching his children a prayer of thanksgiving to the bearded Maximum Leader...
Shortly before the Alianza para el Progreso was proclaimed in 1961, Thomas C. Mann, the U.S. State Department's ranking expert on Latin America, glumly compared the area to "a pile of sugar being eaten away by a fire hose." Much of the erosion has since been halted. The Alianza has made considerable progress in developing economies, while Castro has been ex posed as a bungling adventurer. The Brazilian revolution ended the drift to Communism under a feckless leftist President; Chile averted the same fate in a head-to-head election in which the Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei...
...fourth anniversary of the Alianza para el Progreso last week, the U.S. could report that its grand design is finally showing some substance. Since 1961, the U.S. has disbursed $3.5 billion in aid and committed $4.2 billion, in return for which Latin Americans are beginning to do the necessary, often difficult, things that will multiply the dollars. Items...
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...
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...