Executive President of FONPLATA - Development Bank. Former Pro Secretary of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Undersecretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Uruguay (1999-2000).
Financing for integration and development among countries requires a non-profit, supranational institution with a clear focus on enabling projects that help to achieve these objectives.
We Latin Americans have a vocation for integration. We have the intention, the spirit, the mechanisms, the institutions, we even have important and very admirable results in some areas. The only thing we lack is to effectively implement integration.
The challenge of climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and its severe economic impact, and the realignment of the global political chessboard that has already begun with the war in Ukraine put us in a similar place, but with some advantages.
