Comité pour l'abolition des dettes illégitimes

Costa Rica

What other countries can learn from Costa Rica’s debt repudiation

1 November 2016 - by Eric Toussaint

In January 1917, the government of Costa Rica, under President Alfredo González, was overthrown by his Secretary of the Army and Navy, Federico Tinoco, who called new elections and established a new constitution in June 1917. The Tinoco putsch (...)
Final statement

Regional Workshop On The Illegitimacy Of Debt

Quito, Ecuador, August 17-19, 2007 The peoples of the South, creditors of the social, historical, cultural and ecological debt, are watching with hope and joy the new historical moment faced by Ecuador. The government has taken an (...)