Place these events in order: Costa Rica gained early independence from Spain and built an economically strong and politically stable country. Costa Rican farmers protested until the government gave them low-interest loans. The U.S.-sponsored Food for Peace program delivered huge quantities of subsidized food to Costa Rica. Costa Rican farmers could not compete with subsidized food and went out of business, ending Costa Rican food self-sufficiency. Costa Rica got involved in the civil wars of various neighboring countries while a debt crisis simultaneously racked Latin America