THE HEMISPHERE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180030-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: August 10, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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is desk one morning recently. Teo--
*tow, the Puerto Rican. develop-
who. now bosses the U.S.
the Alliance for Progress. penned a
worded. memorandum to his staff.
ug. 17.' said Moscoso, "we mark
t anniversary of the Alliance.. We
it. We do not celebrate it There
time enough to celebrate when we
hieved a ;writing alliance and an
,fe progress. As yet I am not satis-
t we have either.-
oso's candid inerlib amounted to
recognition of a disturbing fact.
en months after Prendent Kenne-
rring Speech announcing the Alias-
Pru" cm, and a year after it
-Alliance, there wee no central clewing-
house for aid requests. Washington's tend-
ing agencies operated on their olait,400
the State Departmnot, which itits:.
posed to be in overall
plagued by a dizzying auccessioll
American ixdicyrnakers. FIr#
was Assistant Secretary of State fOr
American Affairs Thomas hfaillo
stayed an after the Eisenhnwei
tration left . Next 'came Nest.Deat.Sisia-
Truster Adolph Berle, Who resigned- soon
atter the disastrous Cuban invasion. Then
it was Robert Woodward, a career diplo-
mat who lasted eight months before going
to Spain as U.S. ambassador.
Obstatie Course. Second-guessing all of
them were the ubiquitous?White House
presidential advisers, chiefly Richard
`stead of a lied-till
nations?COlonibia;
have submitted ten-year
ment plans as the.AllianC
'reform is on. everyone's lips,
handful of countries have pas*,
'malty latVi. As one. Salvadorati busiMati-
Man says, `"Don't ask . us Id . Airs
against ourselves."
'lly Washington's estimate: 15
Liths Americ-ans will benefit' front
Al-
liance projects launched in the past 447
'months. But the gains are steel indeed,?
considering tfie fact that Latin America's
.'1945i* caPita gross national product wat
hirelf $329, and ' its population is .in-
creasing at the rate of'2.4',1., every yeit:
On the wafts of many Latin American
Coinmunists, Castroites and others
who would like to See democracy defeated
have taken to writing' ilianza et
'Progreso. Fly underlining the Danish
word pare, they charl:fe its meaning from
"for" to "clops." and thus steal a slogan
for themselves: "Athanr t "tops Progress."
Even at Its best, :Kennedy's nicely turned
Slogan could not hope to achieve :all the
'miracles a hungrY Latin America expect-
ed. President Kennedy was putting it
mildly when he said last week at his press
conference: "Measured against all 'that
has to be done, I think we have .tck do
much better"
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No lime for celebration.
emaly iormalized by zo hemi-
tions at Puma del Este, the pro-
in trouble. Latin Americans mos-
t the promised aid flows slowly.
are discouraged by the
attitude of many Latin American
eats on the reciprocal social and
reforms needed to make the
dollars effective. Evr,ryone real-
. there has been too much talk
t the Altiance \vas going to do,
enough hard skork on how to
those high atrilitions.
ding Figures. By WaAlington's
the ski figure,, are impressive--
ion Pumped into Latin America
.another S.,34 million earmarked.
otals can be mi,leading. The U.S.
sending ,tid America for
rough aI ;twtrliment
the Es,,urt-'inport. Bank, the
lent Point four, and
!(-g'', i they now are
e f?a! and pieces
t.. ar ,j S5.04 million
The
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(;00ci'A in to. who seemed to have a hand
in every Latin American decision.,Only
recently have things settled down. Last t
week f ;rmilwin was in Europe setting up a
"world , atnierence on middle Malg10-
it "tI help businessmen train secoS4-
eclv,l, oi executives. In firm charge art
I..atin American policy is AsSisteel
Secretary of *State for ,loter-Ainerigth
All iir, Edwin Martin,454. a career Gov-
ernmcnt economist. Under him, Ailisatt
Boss .1foscol:o seems to begetting the.fese
hand he needs to make the Alliance work.
Even u. many a 'Latin AmericanJusure-
quest must go through an obstacle ozone
Of governntent agencies. Responding ? to
KtlifiedY S callfor an Alliance. little Hon- 1.
duras. which ranks as one of the poorest,of "-
th, hemisphere's nations, .has applied for
filt'hon to finance such projects as ?
?-fhoicla.. and agricultural equip- 7,
,..ar it ha received ,f(nloopoo;
rnosi f iic applications are gathering dust
in IVa.lir.,;:,eon-!- pigeonhole:.
Huid v. Sleeve. ir a few Latin .,
1.. .11! have made a start
1.1 lia,!..t3;.:la:eitn: reform ti:.A
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