The Alliance for Progress was established in 1961 by the President of the United States John F. Kennedy to strengthen cooperation between North America and South America. This mechanism of economic, adopted within the framework of the Organization of American States was intended to boost the economic and social development of Latin America, but it was in the background an important part in the strategy of protection against growing communist threat that the United States felt since the takeover of Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1959.It is placed in a series of attempts across the American continent to a greater destiny interstate near North and South, as reflected in the doctrine of Pan-Americanism.
The objectives of the Alliance were formulated in the context of the doctrine Kennedy stated that the United States policy towards the continent during the 1960s. She did not have the expected results of economic development and democratic progress, and gradually reduced, it was finally abandoned by President Nixon in 1973