The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is not used to grabbing headlines, but two years of noisy internal power struggles have captured international attention. Now, a scandal at the top of the organization that led to the firing of President Mauricio Claver-Carone may have been the final storm before a return to normalcy.
Mr. Claver-Carone’s nomination, pushed for by former US President Donald Trump in 2020, broke the 60-year IDB tradition of having a Latin American preside over the institution.
Many in the region saw the breaking of this unwritten rule as altering a well-established power balance that compensated for traditional…