[PDF] Alliance For Progress eBook

Author : L. Ronald Scheman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 1988-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
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The Alliance for Progress was a unique experiment in inter-American cooperation in which the United States adopted a policy linking humanitarian and development considerations with strategic goals. This volume explores the original goals of the Alliance and analyzes its achievements of twenty-five years. It draws upon the direct experience of leaders from the U.S. and Latin America who participated in the Alliance, relating how they view the effort in the light of history--what were the true motivations, accomplishments, and shortcomings of the Alliance. The contributors discuss how considerable tangible successes were achieved which laid the groundwork for modern, development-oriented governments now coming to fruition. They also demonstrate that the Alliance's legacy can now be dealt with through new approaches to inter-American cooperation--thus facing the challenges of new technology and rising expectations of the new democracies in the hemisphere.

Author : Jeffrey Taffet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1135867879

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Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the program was a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar foreign-aid commitment to Latin American nations, meant to help promote economic growth and political reform, with the long-term goal of countering Communism in the region. Considering the Alliance for Progress in Chile, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia, Jeffrey F. Taffet deftly examines the program’s successes and failures, providing an in-depth discussion of economic aid and foreign policy, showing how policies set in the 1960s are still affecting how the U.S. conducts foreign policy today. This study adds an important chapter to the history of US-Latin American Relations.

Author : Stephen G. Rabe
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1469617366

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In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress, a program dedicated to creating prosperous, socially just, democratic societies throughout Latin America. Over the next few years, the United States spent nearly $20 billion in pursuit of the Alliance's goals, but Latin American economies barely grew, Latin American societies remained inequitable, and sixteen extraconstitutional changes of government rocked the region. In this close, critical analysis, Stephen Rabe explains why Kennedy's grand plan for Latin America proved such a signal policy failure. Drawing on recently declassified materials, Rabe investigates the nature of Kennedy's intense anti-Communist crusade and explores the convictions that drove him to fight the Cold War throughout the Caribbean and Latin America--a region he repeatedly referred to as "the most dangerous area in the world." As Rabe acknowledges, Kennedy remains popular in the United States and Latin America, in part for the noble purposes behind the Alliance for Progress. But an unwavering determination to wage Cold War led Kennedy to compromise, even mutilate, those grand goals.

Author : Che Guevara
Publisher : Che Guevara Publishing Project
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
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"This book includes never before published material, such as Che's televised speech outlining the issues posed by Kennedy's plan. It also demonstrates how this 1960s debate is still raging in the proposal for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jerome Levinson
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Latin America
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"A Twentieth Century Fund study." Includes bibliographical references.

Author : John Warren Nystrom
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Latin America
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From the John Holmes Library Collection.