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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Therefore I have called on all the people of the hemisphere to join in a new Alliance for Progress--Alianza para [el]…”

On the recordMarch 12, 1961
Therefore I have called on all the people of the hemisphere to join in a new Alliance for Progress--Alianza para [el] Progreso--a vast cooperative effort, unparalleled in magnitude and nobility of purpose, to satisfy the basic needs of the American people for homes, work and land, health and schools--techo, trabajo y tierra, salud y escuela.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Kennedy promotes the Alliance for Progress as a cooperative effort to meet basic needs in the Americas.

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