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Alliance for Progress

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noun

  1. a program of foreign aid presented by President Kennedy to help solve the economic and social problems of Latin America.


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"It is what the President is openly seeking," legislator and retired military officer Roberto Chiabra, of the conservative Alliance for Progress party, told Reuters.

From Reuters • Nov. 25, 2022

President John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress, the Agency for International Development and international financial institutions under U.S. auspices poured money into developing the agro-export economy.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2021

President John F. Kennedy, who visited Bogota in 1961 as part of the Alliance for Progress.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2020

He then became the top White House authority on Latin America and launched the Alliance for Progress, an economic development program for Central and South America.

From Washington Post • May 21, 2018

In this period we have resolved in friendship our disputes with our neighbors of the hemisphere, and joined in an Alliance for Progress toward economic growth and political democracy.

From State of the Union Address by Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines)

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