The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) faces a new stage marked by the impact of the pandemic and by the election of a new president. In a controversial decision, the United States put forward a candidate for the presidency for the first time, thus breaking a 60-year tradition. But even more than a tradition, there is an explicit commitment in 1959 by former US President Dwight Eisenhower that the IDB would be chaired by a Latin American, as recorded in the book A Long and Winding Road: the Creation of the Inter American Development Bank by the authors Victoria del Campo and Euge ...
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