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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1961, Jan. 4 | |
| The OAS council voted 14–1 (with 6 abstaining) to impose an economic boycott on the Dominican Republic. | 1 |
| March 13 | |
| The Alliance for Progress to aid Latin American countries was proposed by U.S. president John F. Kennedy. | 2 |
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| THE ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS CHARTER was signed by the U.S. and all Latin American governments except Cuba, at Punta del Este (Uruguay). A ten-year program involving $20 billion in public and private investment, it was designed to raise the per capita income of Latin American populations by 2.5 percent annually. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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