The Latin American Geopolitical Strategic Center (CELAG) is leading a campaign today, to which prominent political figures have joined, in which there is an urgent need to cancel Latin America’s foreign debt.
The initiative, signed by former presidents Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Ernesto Samper (Colombia), Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), among others, consideres urgent the need to write off the Latin America´s debt as an indispensable measure to face the health emergency and subsequent economic plight caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
‘Now the world has assumed a more humane and cooperative tone economically in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, CELAG requests the cancellation of sovereign external debt of Latin American countries by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others multilateral organizations,’ according to the text.
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