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Another instrument in the campaign against Castro was the Alliance for Progress. Regardless of whether the Cuban Revolution had taken place, Kennedy would have probably created this programme. But the issue of Castroism injected a greater urgency into the president's developmental plan for Latin America, which he unveiled on 13 March 1961. An American aid programme, it was hoped, would make Latin American governments more favourably disposed 28 The Cuban Missile Crisis towards Washington in the long-term, and less attracted to Havana or Moscow.

45 As for Cuba, it did not merit the sort of obsessive concern that it had hitherto generated in the Kennedy administration. " What the United States needed to do was focus on improving living standards throughout Latin America in order to demonstrate the inadequacies of Castroism. " The general thrust of his arguments was that Kennedy should leave Castro alone and focus upon developing a sound economic aid programme for countries that had not yet gone Communist. 46 As was par for the course in the New Frontier, Kennedy dismissed the counsel offered by his liberal advisers.

During the next few days she went to Florida, spent time with Giancana and Rosselli, and collected another sealed envelope which she delivered to Kennedy at the White House on 5 May. She had intended to hand the envelope to the president the following day, but he told her it was an urgent matter and that she should bring it round immediately. If Campbell's account is accurate, and if the assumption is made that the president was discussing (in his meeting and possibly their correspondence as well) matters more substantive than the vagaries of the weather, then Kennedy's frenetic contacts with Giancana and Rosselli in late April and early May may have involved a discussion about how Castro could be punished for the Bay of Pigs through assassination.

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