Alliance for Progress

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.

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“There are some things that they are willing to hold the line for and to be more adamant about,” said Christine White, executive director of the Georgia Alliance for Progress, which funds nonprofits across the state.

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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.

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President Barack Obama’s Alliance for Prosperity looked eerily like Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress, though its stated rationale was deterring migration rather than deterring communism.

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That’s where LBJ overhauled JFK’s “Alliance for Progress,” which was designed to nourish political reform and economic advancement in the region, and restored President Dwight Eisenhower’s policy of backing right-wing dictators if they supported U.S. interests.

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