Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hitting Home. The good will that permeated the conference was all the more unusual because Johnson came south with surprisingly little in his pockets to give the Latin Americans. Unlike the original Alliance for Progress, with its main stress on U.S. aid combined with land and tax reforms in Latin America, Johnson's new program rested chiefly on increased trade and Latin American selfhelp. "I represent a nation committed by history, by national interest and by simple friendship to the cause of progress in Latin America," Johnson told his fellow Presidents. "But the assistance of my nation will only...
...Arosemena, Johnson's words hit home. After receiving $9.9 billion in Alliance aid during the past six years, the Latin Americans are beginning to realize that aid alone will not make their problems go away. They are also experiencing a new surge of independence, confident that they can progress without relying quite so heavily on U.S. aid. Said Chile's President, Eduardo Frei: "Our people know that they are poor in a rich continent." Added Mexico's Diaz Ordaz: "It is our effort, our imagination and our resources that must carry out the task of economic integration...
...ambitious program, and Johnson made clear that the U.S. will do what it can to lend both aid and encouragement. He hopes to boost Alliance for Progress funds, which now amount to about $1.2 billion a year, by another $300 million annually for the next five years-but he made no major commitments at the conference. In fact, he extended only five offers: a pledge to finance a Latin American satellite-communications system, a promise to try to persuade the industrialized countries to grant trade concessions to less developed countries, a commitment to try to "untie" some U.S. aid funds...
This is the kind of question that was raised at Punta del Este six years ago when the American foreign ministers hammered out the Alliance for Progress. And yet, last week in the same halls and conference rooms, for all the paens so readily raised to the Alliance, there was surprisingly little talk of how the social and political and economic structure of Latin societies can be changed...
...this respect, last week's meeting can almost be viewed as a retreat from facing up to the difficult issues raised in the concept of the Alliance for Progress. When all is said, today the Alliance is staggering and suffering through a lack of resolve almost everywhere in the Hemisphere...