To what extent can Kennedy's Alliance for Progress plan be considered a success?

In November 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy announced an ambitious new plan to Latin American diplomats he promised $20 billion from public and private money to help Latin America bring about essential social change. The policy achieved some success however, the failures were far more significant. Except for clear successes and failures, there were also some mixed results of the policy. The successes included housing and education programmes, that generally improved the standard of living in the Latin American countries. The failures were deeply rooted in the origins of the programme the main problem was that Kennedy opted for the short-term security that anti-Communist elites, especially military officers, could provide over the benefits of long-term political and social democracy.
JFK's alliance was to some extent successful and some countries and societies benefited from it. However, the policy can not be said to be fully successful and should be considered more of a failure because the goals were not honest. Kennedy claimed that he wants Latin America to be fully democratic but as seen in Peru, Argentina and Brazil they often worked against the democratically chosen governments and supported military juntas instead. Furthermore, the success can be assessed according to goals: if the aim of the Alliance was to counter the Communist threat it could be argued that it failed, judging by the extent of guerrilla activity in the 1960s. If the aim was to promote democracy, it failed, as there were few democratic governments in Latin America by 1970. If the aim was to ameliorate poverty, there were some small-scale successes (Colombia).