The Banco de Avío was

A) an ambitious government effort to modernize Mexican industry.
B) an effort to promote Mexican agricultural exports through government subsidies.
C) an effort to revive Mexican mining through collaboration of foreign and domestic capital.
D) a private bank that extended mortgage loans to distressed landowners.


A

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