Sugarcane, BBVA, and New Mexican Oil

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Today's charts:

1. The staggering size of Brazil’s sugarcane industry (story by Gabriel Cohen)

2. BBVA finds its most stable home in Mexico

3. New Mexico’s oil boom (story by Cesar Villescas)

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