Sovereign debt defaults and currency collapses in Latin America, including the debt crisis of the 1980s, the Mexican peso crisis and the Argentine crisis of 1998 to 2002. An event belongs here when its cited article describes a crisis in a Latin American country. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Latin American Debt and Currency Crises, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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Mexican peso crisis (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Mexican Peso Crisis (1994), Lead paragraphQuote, Has Member: Mexican Peso Crisis (1994), Lead paragraph
The Mexican peso crisis was a currency crisis sparked by the Mexican government's sudden devaluation of the peso against the U.S. dollar in December 1994, which became one of the first international financial crises ignited by capital flight.
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