Finance & economics | Chengdu then don’t

The Inter-American Development Bank cancels its big bash in China

Juan Guaidó’s choice of delegate was unacceptable to the hosts

|HONG KONG

FAMOUS FOR its hotpot and pandas, Chengdu, in China’s inland Sichuan province, is not an obvious venue for a conference about Latin America. But it was looking forward to hosting this year’s meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which provides aid, advice and cheap loans to 26 developing countries in Latin America.

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