" Buenos Aires was also a modern commercial city that served as the hub of Argentina’s vast agricultural and natural resources, as well as its industrial center. Highways and great railway lines radiated out in every direction, bringing in goods from the countryside, and the port, one of South America’s largest, sent those goods abroad. "

― Neal Bascomb , Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi