The story criticizes the world bank and the international monetary fund for their policies on providing funding to latin american countries. A common complaint against these organizations is that the rich countries who run them use the power of funding to make countries do what is best for the countries funding the bank rather than the countries receiving the funding. The wellbeing of the country at hand is of lesser importance  than balancing the books.As seen in the story, the government employees have the means to travel and buy expensive cars, and this is a common complaint about the world bank and the IMF, that it expands the wealth of the bureaucracy but does not help the people.The policies of the World Bank would force countries to slash social funding. During the 1980s, when this story was written, many saw these policies as making the problems worse and not helping the people of the countries, as inflation was causing food prices to rise dramatically. The way the loans were given out did not take into account the culture and needs of the people in each country separately, causing the policies to be ineffectual in reaching the people who really needed the aid. These impacts are seen in “And We Sold the Rain”, when the cost of food rose steeply and the cost of luxury goods,such as caviar fell due to the measures implemented by the IMF and World Bank.