The Americas: Alliance for Progress

Just as he has stamped the phrase New Frontier on his Administration at home, President Kennedy is out to tag his Latin American policy. The new catch phrase, first used by the President in his State of the Union message: Alliance for Progress.

Last week the President defined the aim of Alianza para el Progreso in an article he wrote for LIFE EN ESPAÑOL. The U.S. Latin American policy goal will be achieved, said the President, "only when every form of tyranny—either despotic rule at home or domination from abroad —is driven from...

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