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Question SA-10. Here is the text reference (p. 143/2):
To extract and move the raw materials out of the periphery it was necessary
to develop Latin America's infrastructure, especially transportation, agriculture,
mines, and other extractive pursuits. The years 1880-1910 saw a great boom
of European investment in Latin America aimed at this extraction of raw
materials and foodstuffs. British (and to a lesser extent US and other European)
investors poured large sums into the construction of railways in Latin America
for the purpose of moving raw materials to the ports where they could be
trans-shipped to Europe. The railway became the symbol of this late 19th
Century progress, and of Positivism itself.