From Development to DictatorshipDuring the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U. S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s' Bolivia ended up on a collision course with important sectors of the countrys civil society, including radical workers, rebellious students, and a plethora of rightwing and leftwing political parties. In From