Word: progressing
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Land reform is making progress, however slowly. Some 55,000 families have been given 3,900,000 acres in Venezuela. In Chile, where about 70% of all productive land is held by 5% of the landowners, an agrarian reform law has been enacted, is gradually being enforced. Bolivia has distributed some 6,500.000 acres to 58,000 families. Even Paraguay's Dictator General Alfredo Stroessner has granted land titles to more than 10,000 squatters...
Just how much of Latin America's advance can be attributed to President Kennedy's celebrated Alliance for Progress is doubtful, since that amorphous program seems to mean something different to each Latin American official. But by its mere expression of U.S. interest, it undoubtedly has contributed a measure of psychological lift...
Every hope for continued progress, however, runs smack into the hard fact of Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev's thrust into that island turned Fidel Castro from a hero to a puppet in much of Latin America. When Kennedy forced Khrushchev to retrieve his long-range missiles and bombers, respect for the U.S. soared. Yet much of that has been dissipated by the realization that Cuba's potential for troublemaking in the hemisphere is still growing. That threat alone meant that there would be much worth talking about at the Presidents' meeting...
Deeply troubled by the disappointing start of the Alliance for Progress, the Organization of American States last fall appointed a committee of two to make a survey of what went wrong and what should be done about it. The roving critics were two of Latin America's most distinguished statesmen, temporarily out of work: Juscelino Kubitschek and Alberto Lleras Camargo, former Presidents of Brazil and Colombia. For three months, they went their independent ways, studying reports, conferring with Alliance officials, huddling with economists and politicians in Latin American capitals. Then they met in Rio de Janeiro to compare notes...
Another View. A hemisphere-wide parliament may help, but recently another critic of the Alliance proclaimed that the Alliance's failings go deeper than mechanics. "The Alliance for Progress is dead," said Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, 54, of Rio de Janeiro. "But I desire its resurrection." The archbishop's appraisal, taped on TV for rebroadcast in the U.S., might be too harsh. The Alliance shows signs of life in several countries-notably Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and El Salvador. Nevertheless, he believes that progress throughout Latin America has been halted by both U.S. and Latin American governments' excessive...