<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> We (the U.S.) have not only supported a dictatorship in Cuba--we have propped up dictators in Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic . We not only ignored poverty and distress in Cuba--we have failed in the past eight years to relieve poverty and distress throughout the hemisphere . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--President John F. Kennedy, October 6, 1960 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> We (the U.S.) have not only supported a dictatorship in Cuba--we have propped up dictators in Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic . We not only ignored poverty and distress in Cuba--we have failed in the past eight years to relieve poverty and distress throughout the hemisphere . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--President John F. Kennedy, October 6, 1960 </Td> </Tr> <P> Besides this aggressive policy towards Cuba, John F. Kennedy tried to implement the Alliance for Progress, an economic aid program which proved to be too shy signed at an inter-American conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay, in August 1961 . </P>

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