It was true, and was more to the point than most of their other citations, that every one of these Spanish-American republics assumed its debt, that most of them did it before their independence was recognized, and that they gave these debts contracted by Spain the preference over later debts contracted by themselves.
Reid points out that Spanish-American republics prioritized debts contracted by Spain over their own later debts.
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