Our goal is a free and prosperous Latin America, realizing for all its states and all its citizens a degree of economic and social progress that matches their historic contributions of culture, intellect and liberty.
This statement outlines Kennedy's vision for a prosperous and free Latin America, emphasizing social and economic progress.
Share
More from John F. Kennedy
And we will have forged across the Atlantic a trading partnership with vast resources for freedom.
And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom.
A year ago, in assuming the tasks of the Presidency, I said that few generations, in all history, had been granted the role of being the great defender of freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.