LATIN AMERICA ALLIANCE FOR REACTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100400003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 21, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The .Alliance? for Progress; born a .
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undergone an ugly transformation".
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and has entered a "hard" stage pea
P. pled by characters out of the Penta-.,
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r; Edmund? Flores is a professor of arid-
? /1 cultural economics at the National
. ?!!. University of Mexico, and at present
1. a visiting professor of the social scil!-
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t?ences at the University of Chicago. Dr.:
; .Flores has frequently advised the Ulf.
and the FAO on- matters of land re.:?:
tt, tong and economic development. ? , .*
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,The passwords now are military aid,
,counter-insurgency, civic action and
armed intervention. The Brazilian
coup and the occupation of Santo
? ' Domingo are the two better known
1. defensive response of many fright-
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Latin America ieaet this titne?.4::??
In 1960, Cuba demonstrated cadly...
? too clearly that the pressures :AT
:social and economic reform
,. Latin America were formidable. The't..'
idents of this hard stage.. .
? What is the rationale behind the
return to direct intervention. and
, U.S. military power? What e? the*
differences, if any, between Presi-
dent Johnson's "Invade" Thy Neigh.:
bor ?Policy" and Theodore .Roose?;.
.velea.."Gunboat Diplomacy"? How.
i'ened American nations was
?? liance for Progress. In ten years,,'.:,..
with the magic of. 10 billion
dollars, the Alliance would 'stream-
s. line rigid social structures, revitalize,
economies. and 'pave the way for
'political stability. The miracle of
S he; .Marshall.' PIM.. would ?be
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release
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