I am fortunate to have been the head of FONPLATA in one of the most important stages in the history of this Institution. Not so long ago, this Institution was a financial fund, and in just a few years, we have turned it into a modern and dynamic regional development bank already at the same level as...
The Executive President, Juan Notaro, has received from the Art Director of the American Renaissance and Baroque Music Festival, Priest Piotr Nawrot, the restored scores of Sinfonia de La Plata. FONPLATA funded the restoration of Pedro Ximénez de Abrill y Tirado’s Symphony No. 11, carried out by...
FONPLATA has signed a 60.535-billion-US-dollar loan agreement with Uruguay’s National Corporation for Development (CND) to fund the Support Program for Forest Road Network Optimization. The guarantee contract was signed the same day. The Program, which shall be carried out by Corporación Vial del...
By the end of last year, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) published an analysis report on energy in Latin America and the Caribbean. The most outstanding fact revealed by the report is that in 20 years the energy demand in the region will increase by 100%. To meet this demand, huge...
I have just been in Washington DC, at the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, an annual meeting of the two key agencies of the world’s financial system, in which the current situation of the world economy and the perspectives for the future are analyzed. It is a...