<Dl> <Dd> There is general frustration over the failure to achieve a more rapid improvement in standards of living . The United States, because of its identification with the failure of the Alliance for Progress to live up to expectations, is blamed . People in the countries concerned also used our visit as an opportunity to demonstrate their frustrations with the failure of their own governments to meet their needs...demonstrations that began over grievances were taken over and exacerbated by anti-US and subversive elements which sought to weaken the United States, and their own governments in the process . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> There is general frustration over the failure to achieve a more rapid improvement in standards of living . The United States, because of its identification with the failure of the Alliance for Progress to live up to expectations, is blamed . People in the countries concerned also used our visit as an opportunity to demonstrate their frustrations with the failure of their own governments to meet their needs...demonstrations that began over grievances were taken over and exacerbated by anti-US and subversive elements which sought to weaken the United States, and their own governments in the process . </Dd> <P> The major part of the Rockefeller report suggested a reduction of U.S. involvement, "we, in the United States, cannot determine the internal political structure of any other nation". Because there was little the United States should or could do toward changing the political atmosphere in other countries, there was no reason to attempt to use economic aid as a political tool . This was the justification to reduce economic aid in Latin America . The Rockefeller report called for some aid to continue, but the report recommended creating more effective aid programs . </P> <P> Growth in regional output per capita in Latin America in the 1960s was 2.6%, exceeding the Alliance for Progress goal of 2.5% . In contrast to 2.2% growth per capita in the 1950s, GDP growth rate per capita in the region reached 2.9% in the latter half of the 1960s and accelerated to 3.3% in the 1970s . Overall nine countries (including Brazil and Mexico) reached the target goal, ten nations did not reach the goal, and only Haiti had lower growth . </P>

What was the outcome of the alliance for progress program