The debt crisis hit Latin America very hard. The buildup in borrowing had been enormous. Between 1975 and 1982, Latin America's long-term debt almost quadrupled, from $45.2 billion to $176.4 billion.

The Asian crisis, like the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s and the Mexican crisis of 1994–95, has had a broad and devastating impact, not only on the economies of the affected countries but ...

I want to give you a heads up that my programme ‘Waking up to World Debt’ will air on ... to save the world’ led by US policy makers. It was the case in Latin America in the 1980’s ...

While these transactions were popular in the ‘80s and ‘90s, spawned by the Latin American debt crisis, they eventually fell out of favor. This was partly because they required complex negotiations yet ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Political and economic crisis have erupted in what was once Latin America's richest country. Daily protests and an increasingly authoritarian leader threaten to ...