Results
The Alliance for Progress achieved a short-lived public relations success. It also had real but limited economic advances. But by the early 1970s the program was widely viewed as a failure.
The program failed for three reasons:
- Latin American nations were unwilling to implement needed reforms, particularly in land reform.
- Presidents after Kennedy were less supportive of the program.
- The amount of money was not enough for an entire hemisphere: $20 billion averaged out to only $10 per Latin American.
The Organization of American States disbanded the permanent committee created to implement the alliance in 1973.
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