一些内部电子邮件显示，一位泛美开发银行内的美国律师向美国财政部提出如下建议：虽然这些贷款不存在合法性技术障碍，但是美国可以通过“延缓”贷款进程来有效地阻止贷款的发放。
Internal emails reveal that a US legal counselor inside the IDB proposed to the US Treasury Department that, though the loans faced no legitimate technical obstacles, the US could effectively block them by “slowing” the process.