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A history of debt defaults: Uruguay 2003

In the penultimate day of our series on sovereign debt default, we look at how Uruguay – whose banks became technically insolvent in 2003 following a flight of US deposits – became the poster boy of default management

In the penultimate day of our series on sovereign debt default, we look at how Uruguay – whose banks became technically insolvent in 2003 following a flight of US deposits – became the poster boy of default management.

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