ABSTRACT
Dwight D. Eisenhower administration forgot the criticism and in many ways sustained and expanded the foreign policy course begun under Harry S. Truman. The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and a stream of friendly democratic leaders vainly warned Washington that the alternative to democratic reforms and far-reaching economic development efforts was revolutionary upheaval and an interventionist reaction on Washington's part. Some substantially weighty episodes stand as landmarks in the deterioration of the administration's Latin American policy: the CLA-sponsored coup in Guatemala as an expression of the new interventionist impulse taking hold of Washington, and Venezuela's violent protests against Vice President Richard M. Nixon's goodwill tour. The feverish diplomatic activity that accompanied Juscelino Kubitschek's Operation Pan America (OPA) proposal reflected the Brazilian government's determination to organize and energize the rest of Latin America for vigorous effort to forge the region into a more cohesive, influential entity.
