Asymmetry and Agenda-Setting in U.S.-Latin American Relations.

ALLIANCE for Progress; KENNEDY, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; KUBITSCHEK, Juscelino, 1902-1976; EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; ORGANIZATION of American States; ECONOMIC development; LATIN America-United States relations; HISTORY

The article discusses the role of Latin American, and particularly Brazilian, diplomacy in shaping the Alliance for Progress, an international economic development program launched by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961. It comments on its precedents in Operation Pan-America (OPA), which was proposed by Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek in 1958. The author reflects on the policy of the administration of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the negotiations of the Organization of American States (OAS), and concepts of power asymmetry and agenda-setting.