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  1. A programme of US assistance to Latin
  2. American countries, initiated by President
  3. Kennedy in 1961 under the auspices of the
  4. Organization of American States. It called
  5. for expenditure of $20 billion over ten
  6. years, but economic conditions continued to
  7. worsen in Latin America and President Nixon
  8. effectively dismantled the program.
  9.