ABSTRACT
As the case studies suggest, the Alliance for Progress operated throughout the 1960s on national terms. Looking at Chile, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia alone, however, presents a view of U.S. aid policy in the mid-and late-1960s that overestimates U.S. involvement in the region as a whole. The four countries examined in the case studies were the highest priorities for Washington. In total they received 59.6 percent of all U.S. aid to the region from FY1962 to FY1969. As the 1960s wore on, these four received an even greater percentage of U.S. aid: 69.2 percent from FY1966 to FY1968.1 Yet the cases also demonstrate a larger trend: the energy, enthusiasm, and idealism that existed at the start of the 1960s were no longer present.
