Alliance for Progress

And we have to keep in mind that in that context, in the Cold War context, we have the United States governing what they consider and still consider as their backyard.

So we have the Alianza para el Progreso, Carta de Punta del Este, that kind of things in the early 60s.

So we have the United States.

In Argentina, for instance, there was a...

Um, and it'll just give you a broader flavor for what these operations look like.

So we, many of us know that in the early 1960s that President Kennedy had set up a thing called Alliance for Progress.

What he wanted to do, and it was hijacked, um, was basically change the way USAID was ran and use the economic aid for basically any country that did not trample on the human rights of its people and m- basically just needed, um, a step up, not a handout.

And it looked remarkably like Jimmy Carter later on when he tied all of, um, USAID to non-human rights abuses, and most of the CIA-installed military dictatorships in Latin America got their funds cut off, and then all of a sudden we have an economic, um, meltdown, oil embargo, and hostages taken.

And you know, so any president that tries to tie economic aid to ensure that the government is not killing its own people, which is kind of a prerequisite for the CIA to like you, gets kind of thwarted, right? So Pr- um, President Kennedy sets up the Alliance for Progress, and after his assassination, they begin using it along with USAID and many other funding elements.

USAID had a subordinate entity called the Office of Public Safety, and it was anything but safety.

So these efforts were all orchestrated under the guise, "We can't have another Cuba in our backyard.

Um, we talked about the Summer Institute.

I know that we have tried to export know-how.

However, you mentioned the CIA, and that was part of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress also program.

I went to school in Venezuela, in Venezuelan schools, and I met several teachers, so-called teachers, who were CIA

students.

You see, I can see that.

I can see that my experience in that case showed me that the Alliance for Progress had a beneficial outcome.

OK, because the CIA agents in my school, my high school were exporting know-how.

How we build things, how we process things.