• Introduction: Ideology as Strategy
• 1. Modernization's Heavy Hand: The Triangular Plan for Bolivia
• 2. Development as Anticommunism: The Targeting of Bolivian Labor
• 3. "Bitter Medicine": Military Civic Action and the Battle of Irupata
• 4. Development's Detractors: Miners, Housewives, and the Hostage Crisis at Siglo XX
• 5. Seeds of Revolt: The Making of an Antiauthoritarian Front
• 6. Revolutionary Bolivia Puts On a Uniform: The 1964 Bolivian Coup d'Etat Conclusion: Development and Its Discontents.
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During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s' Bolivia ended up on a collision course with important sectors of the country's civil society, including radical workers, rebellious students, and a plethora of rightwing and leftwing political parties. In From Development to Dictatorship, Thomas C. Field Jr. reconstructs the untold story of USAID's first years in Bolivia, including the country's 1964 military coup d'etat.Field draws heavily on local sources to demonstrate that Bolivia's turn toward anticommunist, development-oriented dictatorship was the logical and practical culmination of the military-led modernization paradigm that provided the liberal underpinnings of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. In the process, he explores several underappreciated aspects of Cold War liberal internationalism: the tendency of "development" to encourage authoritarian solutions to political unrest, the connection between modernization theories and the rise of Third World armed forces, and the intimacy between USAID and CIA covert operations. Challenging the conventional dichotomy between ideology and strategy in international politics, From Development to Dictatorship engages with a growing literature on development as a key rubric for understanding the interconnected processes of decolonization and the Cold War.
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• Foreword; Acknowledgments;
• 1. Modernization as Ideology;
• 2. American Social Science, Modernization Theory, and the Cold War;
• 3. Modernity, Anticommunism, and the Alliance for Progress;
• 4. Modernization for Peace;
• 5. Modernization at War; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.
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Continuation of hearings on H.R. 12449 and H.R. 12450. Includes review of military aid programs for Vietnam and Alliance for Progress programs for Latin America.
Considers (89) H.R. 12449, (89) H.R. 12450.

Evaluates role and impact of Alliance for Progress on Latin America. Includes "Review of Alliance for Progress Goals, " by AID, Feb 1969 (p. 656-753).

Considers H.J. Res. 428, to state congressional support for a Latin American Common Market and for U.S. participation in its establishment as an extension of the Alliance for Progress.
Considers (90) H.J. Res. 428.

• Introduction: Ideology as Strategy
• 1. Modernization's Heavy Hand: The Triangular Plan for Bolivia
• 2. Development as Anticommunism: The Targeting of Bolivian Labor
• 3. "Bitter Medicine": Military Civic Action and the Battle of Irupata
• 4. Development's Detractors: Miners, Housewives, and the Hostage Crisis at Siglo XX
• 5. Seeds of Revolt: The Making of an Antiauthoritarian Front
• 6. Revolutionary Bolivia Puts On a Uniform: The 1964 Bolivian Coup d'Etat Conclusion: Development and Its Discontents.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s' Bolivia ended up on a collision course with important sectors of the country's civil society, including radical workers, rebellious students, and a plethora of rightwing and leftwing political parties. In From Development to Dictatorship, Thomas C. Field Jr. reconstructs the untold story of USAID's first years in Bolivia, including the country's 1964 military coup d'etat.Field draws heavily on local sources to demonstrate that Bolivia's turn toward anticommunist, development-oriented dictatorship was the logical and practical culmination of the military-led modernization paradigm that provided the liberal underpinnings of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. In the process, he explores several underappreciated aspects of Cold War liberal internationalism: the tendency of "development" to encourage authoritarian solutions to political unrest, the connection between modernization theories and the rise of Third World armed forces, and the intimacy between USAID and CIA covert operations. Challenging the conventional dichotomy between ideology and strategy in international politics, From Development to Dictatorship engages with a growing literature on development as a key rubric for understanding the interconnected processes of decolonization and the Cold War.
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• Table of Contents: Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction d1
• Chapter 1 Changing Course in Latin America 19
• Chapter 2 Implementing the Alliance for Progress 48
• Chapter 3 Kennedy to Johnson 80
• Chapter 4 Chile and the Alliance for Progress 105
• Chapter 5 Brazil and the Alliance for Progress 155
• Chapter 6 The Dominican Republic and the Alliance for Progress 207
• Chapter 7 Colombia and the Alliance for Progress 253
• Chapter 8 The Alliance for Progress in the Late 1960s 291 Conclusion 323 Appendix A 328 Appendix B 334 Appendix C 349 Appendix D 351 Appendix E 369.
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"Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy" presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the program was a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar foreign-aid commitment to Latin American nations, meant to help promote economic growth and political reform, with the long-term goal of countering Communism in the region. Considering the Alliance for Progress in Chile, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia, Jeffrey F. Taffet deftly examines the program's successes and failures, providing an in-depth discussion of economic aid and foreign policy, showing how policies set in the 1960s are still affecting how the U.S. conducts foreign policy today. This study adds an important chapter to the history of US-Latin American Relations.
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The "Encyclopedia of American Journalism" explores the distinctions found in print media, radio, television, and the internet. This work seeks to document the role of these different forms of journalism in the formation of America's understanding and reaction to political campaigns, war, peace, protest, slavery, consumer rights, civil rights, immigration, unionism, feminism, environmentalism, globalization, and more. This work also explores the intersections between journalism and other phenomena in American Society, such as law, crime, business, comsumption, etc. The evolution of journalism's ethical standards is discussed, as well as the important libel and defamation trials that have influenced journalistic practice, its legal protection, and legal responsibilities. Entries also include articles on sports journalism, business journalism, science journalism, and legal journalism.
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• Economics cannot be separated from politics : speech at Punta del Este (August 8, 1961)
• The real road to development : second speech at Punta del Este (August 16, 1961)
• The battle is not yet decided : press conference in Cuba on the Punta del Este Conference (August 23, 1961).

Focuses on the nature of revolution as it affected Latin America in the 1960s and the efforts designed to counteract or coopt this challenge through the Alliance for Progress. At the start of the 1960s, revolution challenged the established world order. In every corner of the underdeveloped world, discontent with the status quo fueled attempts to revoke colonialism and the strangleholds on power maintained by entrenched local oligarchies. This book examines the causes of revolution in the sixties and the various responses crafted to stop it, in particular, the Alliance for Progress, a program which represented the best products of American developmental and counterinsurgency theory. Equally important, however, is an examination of the independent policies implemented by Latin Americans themselves, often in direct opposition to those pursued by the U.S. For the United States the period represented a challenge to both its sovereignty and its leadership in the so-called "Free World." Perhaps more importantly, the disruptions blanketing the globe also pointed out the dramatic weaknesses of an American policy dominated by preparations for thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union. For Latin America, revolution challenged national stability and, in the cases of the regimes it was directed against, their very survival.
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Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)