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OCR: re A in gentine history is a familiar one: digenous Indian tribes wiped it by Spanish treasure hunters; ence from Spain in 1816; since independe Dession of civil and military gov- then a succ presiding over a roller-coaster ernments with intermittent periods of so- economy . To many 19th-century Euro-cial unrest gentina represented the fabled peans, Arg oportunity, a place where cow Land of O ped over vast ranches teeming boys gallo . Immigrants from Italy, Ger- with cattle Spain poured in by the mil- many and by the dawn of the 20th cen- lions, and tina was a modern, European- tury Argen -n, the world's leading exporter style natic of com an _d meat. pression wrecked the export The De