LatinNews Daily - 06 August 2010

Region: The publication América Economí­a has ranked cities in the Americas by ease of doing business. The report used the index of urban competitiveness (ICUR) based on criteria such as the quality of infrastructure and environmental sustainability, as well as other measurements including the number of international destinations reachable directly by air. Miami, the only US city included in the survey, came in first place, followed by Santiago, Chile, and São Paulo, Brazil. The capital city of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, was placed at the bottom of the table of 37 cities, just below the capitals La Paz (Bolivia), Caracas (Venezuela), Asunción (Paraguay) and Managua (Nicaragua).