What's New Archives: April 1996

• A link to Robert Beard's directory of On-line Dictionaries has been added to LANIC's Reference page.
• The sites of Pangaea and Luso Brazilian Books have been added to our Publications page.
• The Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO is now linked from the Academic Research Resources section of the Chile page.
• Three new sites have been added to the list of WWW Servers on our Colombia page: SIN Telematica, the Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA) and the Politecnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid.
• The World Health Organization (PAHO) and the Camara de Comercio e Industria de Cortes have new websites in Honduras.
• The Belize Network has been added to our list of WWW servers in Belize.
• A link to the Augusto Cesar Sandino page has been added from our Nicaragua page.
• Casa Alianza has been added to the Guatemala page.

• The Economic Guide for Investors interested in Colombia, containing extensive economic data and relevant policy analysis, has been linked from the Economy page.
• A new WWW edition of the daily newspaper El Comercio can now be reached from our Ecuador page.

• Interested in the latest news from Brazil? UT-LANIC's Brazil service establishes a new link to Brazilian mass media, including book publishers, television, and newspapers. What's especially interesting is the on-line appearance of regional newspapers such as Diario do Nordeste for the first time. See A Banca Tai for details.
• Mexico's art is proliferating on the Net. Check out the Artes e Historia-Foro Virtual de Cultura Mexicana

• Honduras This Week has a new electronic edition accessible from our Honduras page.
• Guatemala Weekly (in English) is now listed in the News section of our Guatemala page.
• Central American News has been added to our News page.

• A link to "Welcome to Puerto Rico," a homepage assembled by Magaly Rivera, has been placed in the General section of the Puerto Rico page.
• We have added a link from our Honduras page to the new web site of La Prensa.

• A link to Puerto Rico Internet, a provider of internet services and support, can be found on the Puerto Rico page.
• The Cayman Islands World Wide Web has been added to the Travel section of the Cayman Islands page.
• Two additions have been made to our Colombia page: Colnodo, the Asociacion Colombiana de ONGs para la Comunicacion via Correo Electronico, and Noticias Economicas, news on economics and finance provided daily by the periodical "El Colombiano."

• The Venezuela Network (Asociacion de Venezolanistas) has been added to our Venezuela page.

• The Honduras page has a new link to the CODEH, Comite para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Honduras

• The Dominican Republic page has been updated with the following links:
  Economy: Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo - Republica Dominicana
  General: Paginas Dominicanas por Moycee Polanco; and Proyecto Biodiversidad Costera-Marina de Republica Dominicana
  Government: Junta Central Electoral; and Political Parties from the Georgetown Center for Latin American Studies
  Network & Information Services: rep-dom.com, an internet service provider
  News & Periodicals: Diario Electronico Dominicano
  WWW Servers: Junta Central Electoral
• A gopher menu of various pieces of Legislacion Chilena is now linked from the Government section of the Chile page.

• The Secreteria de Salud maintains a bilingual page under the Goverment section of our Mexico page.
• Brazil Week at UT-Austin is happening now. Read all about Brazilian culture, researchers and events at UT-Austin on our Brazil page.
• The Brazil page now links to a major gateway known as the Centro de Informacoes- Internet Brasil.

• The Comisionado Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de Honduras Homepage is now listed on our Honduras page.

• The Cuba page has been updated with two new links. La Pagina de Silvio Rodriguez can be found in the Arts section, while the homepage of The Cuban American National Foundation can be located under Other Resources.

• A Politics section was added to the Mexico page. It includes these new links:
  Coyuntura Analisis y Debate de la Revolucion Democratica, maintained by the PRD
  Documents on Mexican Politics, an eclectic and significant collection of essays
  Grupo Parlamentario del Partido Accion Nacional GPPAN

• Some new WWW servers from the Universidad Autonoma system in Mexico:
  Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur
  Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua UACh
  Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila
  Universidad Autonoma de Morelos

• And there's a new link called Proverbios, Frases y Citas under the Arts & Humanities section of the Mexico page. It has some choice quotes from famous people on topics ranging from "Amistad" to "Tristeza".

• Abstracts of New Works in Brazilian Studies are now available through our Brazil page. The first offering is entitled Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon by Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida and Joao S. Campari.
• Full text of the following papers have been added to our LASA95 Pilot Project page:
  • Popular Resistance to the Privatization of Communal Lands in 19th Century Michoacán Jennie Purnell, Boston College
  • Credibility: Exploring the Bases of Institutional Reform in New Democracies Andreas Schedler, Institute for Advanced Studies
  • "Helping" Democratic Transitions: Political Learning by Chilean Shantytown Dwellers Patricia Hipsher, Quinnipiac College
  • Del "indio pendejo" al "indio legítimo": La subversión del poder mediante la parodia en Mi tío Atahualpa de Paulo de Carvalho-Neto Silvia Nagy, Catholic University of America

• Links to the Charles Darwin Research Station, and to the Universidad Tecnologica Equinoccial, have been added to our Ecuador page.
• Three new links have been added to our Colombia page: REDNET, an Internet Service Provider, in the "Network and Information Services" section; Corporacion de Turismo del Valle de Cauca in "Travel & Tourism"; and the Universidad Nacional, under "WWW Servers".
• Detailed information on Peru's agricultural sector compiled by PeruNet al Dia can now be located on the Agriculture page. Look for the link under Government Resources.
• PeruNet al Dia's homepage is linked from the Peru page under the subheading General. Economic data extracted from PeruNet is located in the Economy section of the Peru page. A link to the Corporacion Andina de Fomento - CAF, a financial institution that acts as a bridge between international financial markets and the Andean region, has been placed in Peru's Business & Finance section.

• Several new links have been added to the Peru page. Look for the Comision de Derechos Humanos y Pacificacion and the Ministerio de Justicia, both in the Government Section. Under General, you will find a link to Derechos Humanos en Peru, assembled by Spain based Equipo Nizcor.
• The Jamaica page now includes a link to the Agreement Establishing the Caribbean Development Bank, a United Nations Agreement signed in Kingston, Jamaica in 1969.
• The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research - CGIAR, part of the World Bank, is linked from the International Resources section of the Agriculture page.
• Network & Information Services now appear on the Uruguay page. Various Internet services are provided through the Administracion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones del Uruguay.
• The Uruguay page reveals new links to Uruguayan perspectives on Mercosur, and information related to Travel and Tourism.
• Guatemala Unlimited and Guatemala on Shortwave are two new resources now listed on our Guatemala page.
• A link to the BCIE (Banco Centroamericano de Integracion Economica) has been added to our Honduras page.
• La Prensa Grafica is now reachable from our El Salvador page.
• Revista Vistazo is a new web publication produced in Panama.

• The Agriculture page has several new links: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperacion para la Agricultura; Red Interamericana de Agricultura y Democracia; Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura - SNA; Centro de Ensino e Pesquisa em Agricultura, Universidade de Campinas; Instituto Superior de Agricultura, Dominican Republic.

• The Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) has been added to our Mexico page. It includes the Nueva Ley del Seguro Social as well as commonly asked questions about it.

• As part of our efforts to promote communication and information exchange among the Latin American Studies community, UT-LANIC has implemented a new facility for browsing and posting Conference Announcements on the World Wide Web. If you have an announcement for an upcoming conference related to Latin American Studies, follow the posting instructions on this page. Users can also browse the directory to find out more about upcoming, as well as past, events.
• 7 Días is now linked from our Nicaragua page.
• A link to the Universidad Centroamericana de Managua has been added to our Nicaragua page.
• Our Honduras page has been updated with links to the following sites:
  Apoyo Popular de Honduras
  La Ciudad de Gracias
  The First Virtual Museum of Art of Honduras
  Honduras Travel Report
  Honduran Notebook
  Honduras Project (SAMS)
  19th Century Honduras
  Tofino Expeditions Ltd
  World Neighbors Projects in Honduras

• University College of Belize has been added to our Belize homepage.
• UNICEF's area office for Peru and Paraguay has been linked from the Peru page. Look under the sub-heading "General."
• Cinema page updated with two new links to Chilean web pages: Cine, Arte y Movimiento from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and Pantalla Magazine.
• The Latin American Political Database at Georgetown University has assembled a page comparing constitutional mandates for the Fuerzas Publicas of various Latin American countries. Follow the link from our Military page.
• The Costa Rica page contains a new link to the Rainforest Outward Bound School.

• The US-Mexico subject directory now links to the Texas Centers for Border Economic and Enterprise Development (TCBEED) page, maintained by Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. It aims to provide "information and technical assistance" on the business community of the US-Mexico border region.