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Once fire-proof Amazon rainforests have become flammable, thanks to climate change

The rise and fall and rise again of the Incas’ capital city Cusco

After fifty years of false starts, is Bogotá finally about to build its metro?

Some US cities now have worse inequality than Mexico, a study has shown

“The only colony in modern history to swallow its own empire”: how the Portuguese royal family remade Rio

Why are Latin American cities the world’s most murderous?

So what’s the Buenos Aires metro system like?

Is the new mayor of São Paulo Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump?

Could Havana avoid the traffic congestion that plagues most middle income cities?

Meet Jorge Sharp, the 31 year old leftist who just became mayor of Chile's second city

Why did Colombia choose Cartagena to sign its peace treaty with Farc?

Tegucigalpa: a city of 850,000 people, and 600 murders a year

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