International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva arrived in Montevideo on Thursday for meetings with Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi, Finance Minister Gabriel Oddone, and Central Bank Governor Guillermo Tolosa, closing a regional tour that had begun in Argentina — the fund's largest borrower. The visit, made at the Uruguayan government's invitation, will cover the country's economic priorities, fiscal resilience, and international integration, with Georgieva also attending the central bank's annual economics conference and meeting private sector leaders. The trip marks a significant moment for Uruguay (a small, politically stable South American nation long regarded as a model of fiscal prudence), coinciding with the 80th anniversary of its IMF membership and two decades since it paid off its debt to the institution — with no IMF managing director having visited since Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2011.