llion was appropriated to the Social Progress Trust Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank, specifically set aside for soft-loan projects that would not normally get funded by that bank or the World Bank . Such projects included; agrarian reform, fair wage and welfare benefits for urban labor, provisions of housing and health and sanitation measures, reduction in literacy, tax reform and price stabilization. This was to provide a way out for many of the poorest of the Latin American and Caribbean countries. "The basic goal of the Alliance for Progress was an annual increase of 2.5% of the combined gross national product of the participating Latin American nations, a goal hard to achieve because of the high population growth rate of several countries." Regardless, the capital from the Alliance for Progress was used for development, and enterprise that wouldn't have otherwise existed due to Latin American inflation and financial instability. While the Alliance for Progress tried to replace the American image after the Bay of Pigs, the loans were not as effective as predicted. After the Bay of Pigs and the Cuba Missile Crisis, Cuba took it's own route supporting it's Marxist Revolutions throughout the region and in Africa. The Cubans attempted to help Marxist movements in Venezuela and Bolivia. Guevara and the Marxist Cuban Revolution stopped in Bolivia where Guevara was assassinated in 1967. Every decade after the 60's, Cuba has played less and less of a role in international and regional politics albeit from some minor skirmishes instigated by Castro. Cuba and Castro have been increasingly attacked for Human Rights violations. Argentina During the 50's, Argentina under General Peron had taken the "Third Position", that being an intermediary position between the US and the SU. Peron renewed relations with the SU after decades of silence. "However, as a way of securing a supply of arms from the US, Peron indicated in August, 1946, tha...
