Around the early 1900's Argentina was the 10th(?) richest country in the world. Wiki: > In 1913, the country's income per head was on a par with that of France

Around the early 1900's Argentina was the 10th(?) richest country in the world. Wiki: > In 1913, the country's income per head was on a par with that of France and Germany, and far ahead of Italy's or Spain's. Several bad government decisions changed that. No US support was needed to knock it off the list into a dizzying number of defaults. The first Infamous Decade needed no help from the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous_Decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous_Decade (edited with more accurate dates)