Coffee, rubber, and sugar exports yielded high profits and taxes in Brazil until 1896, when:
a. A disease blighted coffee production worldwide.
b. Overproduction of coffee resulted in diminishing returns.
c. The regulated the sale of sugar through a state purchase scheme.
d. American agents from the Goodyear Company took over Brazilian production of rubber.
During his short tenure as the Republic of Mexico's second president, in 1829, Vicente Guerrero:
b. Overproduction of coffee resulted in diminishing returns.
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