Understanding U.S.-Latin American Relations: Theory and History by Mark Eric Williams

Author:Mark Eric Williams [Williams, Mark Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780415993142
Goodreads: 14876320
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-08-17T00:00:00+00:00

Source: Inter-American Development Bank, Socio-Economic Progress in Latin America; Social Progress Trust Fund Annual Report (Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 1970)

But in the end, despite the expenditure of $20 billion, the Alliance for Progress did not achieve its more fundamental goals. Although national economies grew, populations grew faster; hence, there was little headway made on reducing poverty. There also was little progress on effective structural change: few governments adopted significant land reform, unemployment remained high, per capita income and illiteracy rates did not improve appreciably, and the inequalities that separated the highly affluent from the impoverished remained. Perhaps most distressing is that the scope of democratic governance did not expand: between 1962 and 1968, nine military coups toppled constitutional governments and authoritarian rulers took power in some of the region’s largest, most economically important states—Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. By the 1970s, the Alliance for Progress had died a quiet death, its demise a sharp contrast to its bold unveiling.

Both the Alliance’s creation and its record raise two important questions. Why was such an ambitious, collaborative development enterprise undertaken to begin with? And why did the Alliance for Progress ultimately fail?

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