On March 13, 1961, in a speech delivered in the White House, President John F. Kennedy called on "all people of the hemisphere to join in a new Alliance for Progress...to satisfy the basic needs of the American people for homes, work and land, health and schools." In August 1961 in Punta del Este, Uruguay, the Kennedy Administration, along with allied leaders from across Latin America, signed a ten-year plan to lend financial assistance to underdeveloped nations in the Americas. The Alliance for Progress aimed at offering the countries of the Americas a path to economic, social and political evolution as an alternative to the Communist revolution which had recently swept Cuba.
Brazil had long recognized the relationship between development and international cooperation. In 1958, President Juscelino Kubitschek proposed the Operação Pan-Americana (Operation Pan America), which hoped to fight communism in Latin America by facilitating commerce and financing between the United States and the rest of the hemisphere. In 1959, the Brazilian government created the Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (the Superintendency for Development of the Northeast, or SUDENE for short), which hoped to act as the primary vehicle between Brazil and American governmental agencies, particularly the Agency for International Development (AID), in order to improve the health, sanitation, and education standards of Brazil's impoverished Northeast region.
Beginning in 1961, Brazil's national political scene would become increasingly more fractured and unstable. Aiming, in the words of U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and dedicated anti-communist Lincoln Gordon, to identify "islands of sanity" in the Brazilian government, American development money in Brazil entered a landscape of fierce political contests where competing local, state and federal interests used American money to best their rivals. Forced to choose between these contenders, the Alliance for Progress in Brazil gradually shed its high-minded developmentalist goals for the sake of defeating communism at all costs.
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Inter-American Economic & Social Council conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 16, 1963 by The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.
Foreign aid as foreign policy : the Alliance for Progress in Latin America by 
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Brazil's developing northeast; a study of regional planning and foreign aid. by Terra seca, Guerra Fria : as forças políticas nordestinas e as relações Brasil-Estados Unidos sob a Aliança para o Progresso (1961-1964) by A Aliança para o Progresso e o governo João Goulart (1961-1964) : ajuda econômica norte-americana a estados brasileiros e a desestabilização da democracia no Brasil pós-guerra by Kennedy e o Brasil : os primeiros anos da Aliança para o Progresso. by Da "Aliança para o Progresso" à "ação para o progresso" by Latin America's development and the Alliance for progress. by Alliance for progress; a social invention in the making by The most dangerous area in the world : John F. Kennedy confronts Communist revolution in Latin America by Latin American growth trends : seven years of the Alliance for Progress. by Below are select digitized images from the Library of Congress's collections. To explore more of the Library's visual materials on Brazil-US relations under the Alliance for Progress, please visit the Library's Prints & Photographs Catalog.
"We are determined to fight communism by any means short of actual spending" [graphic]. by "Don't bother with plans and foundations -- just build one room at a time" [graphic]. by 
Section-by-section analysis of the proposed Foreign assistance act of 1964. H. R. 10502 to amend further the Foreign assistance act of 1961, as amended, and for other pruposes. by Section-by-section analysis of the Foreign assistance act of 1961. by The International development and security act : Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 7372, a bill to promote the foreign policy, security, and general welfare of the U by Below are select resources from the Library of Congress's collections. To explore more of the Library's manuscript and archival materials on Brazil-US relations under the Alliance for Progress, please visit the Library of Congress Online Catalog or search the Library's online finding aids.
Abel Wolman papers, 1904-1975 (bulk 1930-1962). by 
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