Alicia Barcena Ibarracurrent ambassador to Chilewill be the proposal of Government of Mexico to preside over Inter-American Development Bank (BID) behind the dismissal of Mauricio Claver Carone.
This was confirmed by the President Andrew Manuel Lopez Obrador in the morning conference at the National Palace, who pointed out that Bárcena Ibarra is an “exceptional and highly prepared” woman.
“They just removed the director of the IDB. Mexico has a proposal: Alicia Bárcena”, she indicated.
“She was in. the UN, she was director of ECLAC for a long time, she is an exceptional woman, very prepared, with very good relations with all governments”, she added.
“Of course it is a proposal, in case straight, professional, conciliatory people are required. There it is,” she pointed out.
The president made the proposal after the IDB opened the process on Wednesday to appoint a new president, two days after the removal of the American Claver-Carone, who lost the trust of the body’s Board of Governors due to his love affair with a subordinate
Alicia Bárcena, born in Mexico City in 1952, was the head of ECLAC from 2008 to March 2022, a period in which she established herself as the most influential secretary since the time of Raúl Prebisch, an Argentine who led the organization between 1950 and 1963.
For the election of the organization, the candidate must obtain a majority of the voting power of the member countries, which varies according to the number of shares held by each member of the ordinary capital of the IDB.
The United States, for example, has the highest voting capacity, 30 percent, followed by Argentina and Brazil with 11.3 percent, respectively, and Mexico, with 7.2 percent.
President López Obrador proposed Bárcena after criticizing international organizations, in particular the Organization of American States (OAS).
He even reproduced the song “La OAS es cosa de risa” (1976) by Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Puebla.
“They do not want to reform, the world has already changed, above all, the mentality of the people has changed, and they follow the same apparatuses and the same policy of domination or economic policy,” he argued.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital and EFE