Abstract

The Alliance for Progress was a set of economic aid plans which, in the context of the Cold War, the United States used as a diplomatic pressure mechanism to influence domestic decision-making in Latin American countries. The hypothesis put forward explains the form of U.S. negotiation as a response to an optimal restricted mode of cooperation within the U.S. sphere of asymmetric influence in Latin America. The Chilean experience is considered as a case study, highlighting the political harmony of the State Department with the Chilean Christian Democracy project