Foreign aid as foreign policy the alliance for progress in latin America

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-291) and index.

Changing course in Latin America : influences from Eisenhower, modernization theorists, Kennedy, and the Cuban revolution -- Implementing the Alliance for Progress : the initial theoretical, political, management, and marketing problems -- Kennedy to Johnson : giving up on idealism and worrying about political instability -- Chile and the Alliance for Progress : fighting Allende and pushing Frei -- Brazil and the Alliance for Progress : undermining Goulart and rewarding the military -- The Dominican Republic and the Alliance for Progress : using aid to clean up the post-Trujillo and postintervention messes -- Colombia and the Alliance for Progress : pushing reliable allies to demonstrate that aid could work -- The Alliance for Progress in the late 1960s : the slow fade to irrelevance.