Jimmy Carter

“ February 1980-the twentieth anniversary of the first meeting of the governing body of the Inter-American Development Bank-is a good time for the American people to take note of the success of a bold experiment in hemispheric sharing. ”

“ IN Witness WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of February in the year .of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fourth. ”

“ In the course of its first two decades, the Inter-American Development Bank has committed over $16 billion in development loans to bring electricity and running water to Latin American villages, to provide schools and health care for overcrowded cities, to supply credit to small farmers and entrepreneurs, and to promote a modern infrastructure for Latin American economies. ”