The Alliance for Progress for Latin America

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The alliance for progress failed to substantively assist latin american countries like brazil in developing along sepelino lines. It also failed to meet the stated, kind of real politique, geo political ambitions of the alliance for progress which was precisely to support president like gullart as an democratic alternative to revolutionary cuba. S i think some of the what fortal would say against the alliance forprogress is that a lot of it is actually deepening the anti Americaanism and deepening the resentment ah against ah the us.

Historian Margarita Fajardo on her book The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Fajardo discusses the Latin American economists at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) who conceptualized the division of the global economy between center and periphery, and how that later gave rise to dependency theory and world systems theory. Plus Cuban Revolution and the Alliance for Progress, Allende's democratic road to socialism and right-wing coups in Chile and Brazil—and more. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig