The former president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) accused Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernandez, of being dishonest and only wanting to help his “three gang friends”.
Mauricio Claver-Carone, former president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), took aim at Alberto Fernandez, calling him “dishonest”, claiming that during his tenure at the IDB, the Argentine president’s only interest was to get his adviser. , Gustavo Belize, a job.
“I was an unsuitable person for them, and Argentina had from day one a great effort to remove me from my job,” Claver-Carone said in an interview with Radio Mitre. “Theirs has always been a policy of destruction,” he said.
“In the three years I worked with Alberto Fernández, I never had a single conversation about how to support Argentina as a place to create jobs, growth and development in the country.
“The conversations were always about how to get Gustavo Belize a job,” Claver-Carone said. “It was a job search program for one person,” he said with a wry tone.
“When I was elected, I wanted to appoint an apolitical Argentine, a financially competent person, to an important position. But they were still committed to Belize.
“I told Fernandez that I would nominate a very capable Argentine who is apolitical, and Alberto Fernandez told me: ‘I will not vote for anyone who is not mine.’
“I didn’t understand that. It shocked me a lot”, emphasized the Spanish-American lobbyist, who was appointed to head the institution by Donald Trump, but left by Biden.
Claver-Carone was the first American to head the Inter-American Bank, controlled by North Americans but always led by a Latin American.
However, during his presidency, Trump, tired of the IDB financing socialist regimes in the region, lobbied and managed to install one of his own in the position.
It lasted two years; he successfully weathered the pandemic, but was ultimately brought down by Joe Biden and a media operation that sought to discredit him.
Currently, a Honduran woman close to the Democratic Party, Reina Irene Mejia, is interim president of the Bank in charge of providing loans for infrastructure.
“I believe in ideological honesty, I respect left-wing people and I understand how left-wing people like Cristina Kirchner think. But I don’t understand Alberto Fernandez and that group because they are dishonest,” said the former head of the IDB.
However, the Republican separated Sergio Massa from Alberto and saved his intentions as Minister of Economy, saying that he was the first and only Argentine official who showed concern about the local situation, further clarifying that Massa “speaks to him as a grown up”.
“He didn’t tell me about the friendship, only about his plan to stop the crisis,” he noted. “I have to support Argentina if they come up with a plan, even if it is incoherent. And I responded as I should.”
And he concluded: “But you cannot support if in two years they spend two years playing political games, working for the three friends of Alberto Fernández’s gang and not for millions of Argentines.”
With information from Derecha Diario
