A citizen submitted a request for information to the MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, requesting access to the current debt that Cuba and Venezuela have towards Spain, as well as the renegotiations, debt write-offs and interest and debt restructurings from 2004 to the present time, together with the relevant reports and administrative records.
The Administration refused access due to administrative silence and, at the claim stage, handed over part of the information to the claimant, denying the rest since, in its opinion, the limit of article 14.1.c) applies, relating to external relations.
The Council of Transparency and Good Governance considered the complaint, on the grounds that the configuration of the legal framework for the management of external debt is based, among others, on the principle of transparency conceived as one of the guiding principles of Spanish policy in this matter, which finds concrete projection in the procedure of accountability before the Cortes Generales. To this end, the agreement of the Paris Club of 2015 that forgave 8.5 billion of the 11.1 billion dollars of sovereign debt that Cuba stopped paying in 1986, plus the charges, is public. The invoked limit does not apply.
