The sorry is from March 2019. A month ago.
my thoughts exactly. quid pro quo.
I am sorry to say but since we do control the IMF, to me this is the Trump administration accepting the Liberal argument that the problems in Central America are our fault and we are going to have to “invest” in Central America to get rid of its poverty. Of course that ignores that where and why any Central American state is poor, it is corruption, crony capitalism of the elite versus free enterprise, and the regulatory & legal infrastructure that has caused the poverty - not a lack of U.S. led government loans. The billions Ecuador will now get will just go down the local money pit, create some more Ecuadorian millionaires among the masses, and that’s about it. They will be back with excuses why this set of loans did not set them straight and another U.S. government will lend them some more. Look for a new bank of loans when this one expires in 2022.