Alliance for Progress
The Alliance for Progress ( Alliance for Progress ) was an agreement for economic cooperation between North and South America , in 1961 by the then US President John F. Kennedy was initiated. The aim of the agreement was to prevent other countries in Latin and South America from cooperating with the Soviet Union against the background of the Cuban Revolution .
Goals and Results
In this agreement, the United States committed itself to extensive investments in the economy and education of the countries of Latin and South America. Most countries were quite open to this, but refused to agree to a land agreement. Furthermore, the agreement failed because of Kennedy's death and the fact that his successors showed little interest in the agreement.
In the early 1970s, the alliance was viewed as a failure and reinstated under President Richard Nixon . The reason for this was that the economic successes had largely failed and the attention of the USA was increasingly turning to Chile and its head of state Salvador Allende .
Reactions
The response from Cuba was weak. The Cuban rulers warned against an even greater dependency on the USA, but left each country free to decide whether to join the alliance.
The US public responded positively because, unlike the Bay of Pigs invasion, it was a non-violent route.
Reactions from the Soviet Union were largely absent.
literature
- Matthias Fink: National interest and development aid. John F. Kennedy's Alliance for progress . Minerva, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-597-10020-1 .
- Lawrezki, Josef: Che Guevara. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1974.
- Herbert K. May: Problems and prospects of the alliance for progress. A critical examination . Praeger, New York 1968.
- Harvey S. Perloff: Alliance for progress. A social invention in the making . Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1969.
- William D. Rogers: The Twilight struggle. The Alliance for Progress and the politics of development in Latin America. Random House, New York 1967.
- Scheman, L. Ronald: The Alliance for Progress. A retrospective . New York 1988.
- Scheman, L. Ronald: The United States and Latin America. A History of American Diplomacy, 1776-2000. Routledge, London 2005.
- Smith, Peter H .: Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of US-Latin American Relations. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-19-512998-9 .
- Taffet, Jeffrey: Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America . Routledge, London 2007.
