Mares, David R. and Harold A. Trinkunas. Aspirational Power: Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence. Brookings Institution Press, 2016. ISBN 9780815727965. „Chavez made claims about never again having to seek funds from the IMF and having to endure its conditionality programs. Chavez even announced that Venezuela would leave the IMF (it did not, but did refuse to allow it to carry out formal reviews of the Venezuelan economy). ... Although an initial document for the establishment of the bank was signed in December 2007, it took another two years to finalize the agreement creating it. Among the controversial points was the question of voting rights ... The Bank of the South project, however, remains paralyzed six years after its ratification ... as of this writing in February 2016, the Bank of the South is still not capitalized ...“
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Pino, Soledad. „El Modelo Americano no es Mejor que El Europeo“ (es). La Cave (2007-yil sentyabr), s. 44–47. 2016-yil 3-martda asl nusxadan arxivlangan. Qaraldi: 2023-yil 7-aprel. „... se le considera el artífice intelectual del Banco del Sur, un proyecto impulsado por el presidente venezolano ... Segun fuentes cercanas, el propio Chavez consulta con cierta frecuencia a Weisbrot, aunque no siempre seguiría sus consejos. (He is considered the intellectual architect of the Bank of the South, a project initiated by the Venezuelan president ... according to sources close to him, Chavez himself consults Weisbrot with some regularity, although he may not always follow his advice.)“.
Cristóbal Carle.„El Banco del Sur: un arma de la Revolución Chavista | GEES“ (es). Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos (2008-yil 4-noyabr). — „sus promotores — Mark Weisbrot, artífice intelectual de la propuesta (its promoters — Mark Weisbrot, intellectual architect of the proposal)“. Qaraldi: 2018-yil 15-mart.
Pino, Soledad. „El Modelo Americano no es Mejor que El Europeo“ (es). La Cave (2007-yil sentyabr), s. 44–47. 2016-yil 3-martda asl nusxadan arxivlangan. Qaraldi: 2023-yil 7-aprel. „... se le considera el artífice intelectual del Banco del Sur, un proyecto impulsado por el presidente venezolano ... Segun fuentes cercanas, el propio Chavez consulta con cierta frecuencia a Weisbrot, aunque no siempre seguiría sus consejos. (He is considered the intellectual architect of the Bank of the South, a project initiated by the Venezuelan president ... according to sources close to him, Chavez himself consults Weisbrot with some regularity, although he may not always follow his advice.)“.
