Foreign aid as foreign policy : the Alliance for Progress in Latin America / Jeffrey F. Taffet.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Changing course in Latin America : influences from Eisenhower, modernization theorists, Kennedy, and the Cuban revolution -- Implementing the Alliance for Progress : the initial theoretical, political, management, and marketing problems -- Kennedy to Johnson : giving up on idealism and worrying about political instability -- Chile and the Alliance for Progress : fighting Allende and pushing Frei -- Brazil and the Alliance for Progress : undermining Goulart and rewarding the military -- The Dominican Republic and the Alliance for Progress : using aid to clean up the post-Trujillo and postintervention messes -- Colombia and the Alliance for Progress : pushing reliable allies to demonstrate that aid could work -- The Alliance for Progress in the late 1960s : the slow fade to irrelevance.