Editing Alliance for Progress (section)

== Reception ==
[[Ivan Illich]] advanced a "potent and highly influential critique" of the Alliance, seeing it as "bankrolled and organized by wealthy nations, foundations, and religious groups."<ref>Madar, Chase (2005-02-01) [http://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/feb/01/00024/ The People's Priest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518171947/http://amconmag.com/article/2010/feb/01/00024/ |date=2011-05-18 }}, ''[[The American Conservative]]''</ref>

The journalist [[A. J. Langguth|AJ Langguth]] noted that many [[Brazilian nationalism|Brazilian nationalists]] scorned the Alliance as Brazilian foreign aid to America due to the belief that American corporations were withdrawing more money from the country than they were investing.<ref>AJ Langguth, Hidden Terrors (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), 65-66.</ref> Though Brazil did indeed run [[balance of payments]] deficits with the United States during the years of the Alliance, the size of these deficits was well exceeded by the grants and credits provided by the US to Brazil, even before factoring development loans and military aid.<ref>US Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States 1977 (Washington DC, 1977), 855, 860-861, 864.</ref> Brazil also enjoyed large overall balance of payments surpluses during the Alliance years.<ref>Ethan B. Kapstein, "Brazil: Continued State Dominance," in The Promise of Privatization, ed. Raymond Vernon (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988), 128.</ref>