What's New Archives: February 1997

• The Environment page has been updated to include a new Regional Sources section with new links to the "Business Council for Sustainable Development-Latin America" and "The Latin American Alliance" as well as a new, expanded International Resources section.

• Favorite Recipes from Ipanema, and Receitas da Vovó, have been added to the Brazil section of our Food page.
• The publications MG Turismo Online, and Ciencia da Informacao, can now be found in the Brazil section of our Electronic Publications page.
• The Brazil section of our Travel page, has several additions: Brazil Nature Ecoturism, Catalogo Brasileiro de Hoteis e Agencias de Turismo, MG Turismo Online, Nature Safaris, Rio Tourist Information, Tourism in Brazil, Travelling to Brazil!!!, and Yaih? - Entretenimiento-Turismo.
• New additions to the Online Catalogs & Homepages section, Brazil part, of our Libraries page: Biblioteca Municipal de Santos "Alberto Sousa", Instituto Brasileiro de Informacao em Ciencia e Tecnologia (IBICT), Rede Antares, Universidade Catolica de Brasilia (UCB), Universidade de Brasilia (UnB), Universidade de Fortaleza, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
• Visit our redesigned Finance section under the Business & Finance page with many new country links.

• You can now find in our Travel page, the Lonely Planet Destination's guides for each Central American and South American country. In the same page, the Guyana Online Tourist Guide has been added to the Guyana section; and a new section for Panama has been created with five links.
• The Inter-American Development Bank Publications site, has been added to the Regional Resources section of our Publishers page.
• The webpages of the Melgar Futbol Club, and Futbol Peruano en Tiempo Real, have been added to the newly created Sports section, of our Peru page. In the same page, you can now find ACI Digital, under the General Information section.
• The Credito Agricola de Habilitacion has been added to the Paraguay section of our Agriculture page.
• You can now find the school La Pedrera, from Guatemala, under the Other Latin American Schools section, of our K-12 page.
• The CEMA Instituto Universitario, has been added to the Argentina section of our Higher Education page.
• The following information from the Inter-American Development Bank: Basic Socio-Economic Data, Income Distribution Data, Current Economic and Policy Trends, Overview-Country Economic Assessments, Proposed Project Documents, and Approved Project Documents, has been added to the Business & Economy sections of our Chile, Peru, and Uruguay pages.

• The Bolivia page has a host of new additions. They include
  • Mascaras de Bolivia, now in the Arts & Culture section;
  • The Universidad Mayor de San Andres and the Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, in the Eduaction section;
  • The Ministerio de Desarollo Social, Secretaria Nacional de Participacion Popular (SNPP); the Banco Central de Bolivia; Bolivia Constitutions; and the Prefectura del Departmento de La Paz, which can be found in the Government section; and
  • In the News & Newsgroups section, ERBOL - Agencia de Noticias.

• UT-LANIC is pleased to announce an addition to our subject section: a new Management page. The page includes links to MBA schools and research centers in Latin America, to management-specific journals and periodicals, and to other management-related resources in the Internet. We hope you find it useful.
• ReID-Base de Datos de Resumenes de Informacion y Documentacion, has been added to the Newsgroups & Network Resources section of our Libraries page.
• Our Languages page has the following new additions: Coleção Línguas Indígenas do Brasil, in the Regional Resources section; Public Accesible Mailing Lists - Language and Linguistics, in the Newsgroups & Mailing Lists section; and Centre for Theories of Language and Learning, and Languages from the Native Web, both in the International Resources section.
• The Brazil section of our Literature page, has 4 new links: Assocacao de Estudos Euclidianos, Literatura Afro-Brasileira, Literatura e poesia, and Yaih? - Literatura.

• The Sistema Económico Latinoamericano (SELA) is pleased to announce publication of the most recent issue of Capítulos del SELA. Issue number 48 is titled Industria, Tecnología y Competitividad. This issue includes articles by specialists from Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, and India, and by representatives of international organizations, looking at the relationship between industry, technology and competitiveness from a multidisciplinary perspective.
• The Journals & Magazines section of our Electronic Publications page, has several additions. You can now find a number of new links in the Brazil part, and Lecturas Matematicas, and Revista Colombiana de Matematicas, in the Colombia part. Also in the same page, the site Yaih? - Noticias & Revistas, from Brazil, has been added to the Directories section.

• New links in our Higher Education page: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Seccion Cali in Colombia, and Universidad del Sagrado Corazon, in Puerto Rico
• Our K-12 page has four new additions: Agendinha, and Ciencia Hoje das Criancas, in the Regional Resources section; and Argus Clearinghouse : Education, LION Librarians Information Online Network, in the International Resources section.
• The site Writings of Carlos Fuentes, has been added to the Mexico section, of our Literature page. In the same page, in the Paraguay section, you can find Biblioteca Paraguaya El Lector, and Breve Diccionario de la Literatura Paraguaya.
• Our Libraries page, has several additions: the homepages of the libraries of the Universidad de Chile, Universidad del Valle, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, la Hemeroteca Nacional Universitaria de Colombia, the library of CINVESTAV in Mexico, the library of the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico, the library of the Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay, the ULALIB system from the Universidad de los Andes in Venezuela, the Directorio de Bibliotecas Españolas, and the LibWeb directory, all of them added to the Online Catalogs & Homepages section. In the Newsgroups & Network Resources section, you can find The Internet Public Library - Homepage, Library Resources, and LION. In the Library Schools section, you can find Escola de Biblioteconomia da UFMG, Biblioteconomia y Documentacion from Leon, Spain; and the directories Library Schools, LIS Schools on the Net, and World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, Information Management, Information Systems, etc.
• Three new aditions to the Mexico page: The Secretaria de Desarrollo Social and the Secretaria de Contraloria y Desarrollo Administrativo, under the Government & Public Administration section, and the Seccion Amarilla (Yellow Pages), under the Other Resources section.
• A link to Los Murales Mexicanos can now be found under the Arts & Humanities section of the Mexico page. Enjoy.

• Two new links in our K-12 page: Yaih? - Educacao, in the Brazil country resources section; and Education Free Forum, in the Teachers' Resources section.
• The site Simon Schwartzman: Main Texts on Higher Education, has been added to the Regional Resources section of our Higher Education page. In the same page a list of Universidades Chilenas can now be found in the Chile section.
• The Agencia Catolica de Informaciones en America Latina has been added to the Religion section of our Sociology page.
• A new link to Dominican Baseball can be found in the Dominican Republic section of the Sports page.
• The Business & Economy section of the Venezuela page has a new link to the The Venezuela Export Directory.

• Our Agriculture page has been re-organized an updated with sections for Regional, Country and International Resources. New links can be particularly found under the Argentina, Brazil,and Mexico country sections, and in the International Resources section.
• The Paraguay page has several new links. You can now find:
  • The Biblioteca Paraguaya el Lector in the Arts & Culture section;
  • The Administracion Nacional de Electricidad, the Administracion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, the Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral, and the Credito Agricola de Habilitacion, now in the Government section;
  • In the General section, the Guia Telefonica del Paraguay and the Hospital de Clinicas have been added;
  • The Bolsa de Valores de Asuncion is now in the Economy section; and
  • A link to Turismo Paraguay is new to the Travel & Tourism section.
• The Sports page has two new links to the Confederacion Sudamericana de Futbol (CONMEBOL) and Alianza Lima, one of the premier soccer clubs in Peru. As well, the Brazil section has two new links to Abada Capoeira and Capoeira Angola.
• The pages for the Ministerio da Administracao Federal e Reforma do Estado and the Governo do Brasil are now in the Brazil section of the Government & Politics page.
• Take a look at the Museo Virtual presented by the Universidad Michoacana found now under the Arts & Humanities section of the Mexico page.
• A link to ProParaguay can now be found under the Other countries resources of the Trade page.
• A summary of current agriculture production in Paraguay can be found under the Other Countries section of the Statistics page.

• New to the Environment page: "Ambiente Ecologico" in Argentina section; "Pantanal - Meio Ambiente" in Brazil section; and "Asociación de Apicultores del Paraguay" and "Fundación Ecocultura - Rescate Audio-Visual - Paraguay" both under the newly created Paraguay section.

• The Government & Politics page has three new additions. The Casa del Gobierno de El Salvador and the Tribunal Supremo Electoral are now in the El Salvador section, and the Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana has been added to the Regional Resources section.

• An Academic & Research Resources section has been added to the Environment page as well as links to the "International Institute for Sustainable Development", "Commission for Environmental Cooperation", "CONABIO-Mexican Biodiversity Commission", "Red de Desarrollo Sostenible", "Guyana & Suriname Rainforest Conservation Documents", and "Brazilian Rainforest Conservation Documents".
• The Guyana page has an assortment of new links, including Recent Economic Trends from the IADB, The Guyanese Online Tourist Guide, Guyana Rainforest Conservation Documents, and a site for Guyanese Songs.
• A new link to derechos humanos en Venezuela has been added to the General Information section of the Venezuela page.

• We continue with our renovation process, and now we are glad to announce our new page Electronic Publications which includes publications full-text or in special online formats, available on the Network. In this page you can find sections for Books, Conference Proceedings, and Journals & Magazines. The Newspapers continue to be part of our News page. Your suggestions about this and other new pages are always welcome!

• As part of the renovation of our economy-related pages, we are pleased to announce a new Trade page. On this new subject page you will find publications, foreign trade figures, regional research and promotion institutions, and also well-known international information resources and organizations.

• The Business & Finance page has been redesigned and updated to include country-specific sections and lots of new links. Thanks to Jaime Morfin for helping with the new design.
• At the Latin American Studies Association's LASA97 Congress, to be held April 17-19 in Guadalajara, Mexico, LANIC will be hosting an Internet/PC Training Center. Through the Center, Congress participants will be able to chose from a broad program of workshops, training sessions, and demonstrations of electronic resources for Latinamericanists. The training program will include sessions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. For additional information, including the full program and on-line registration forms, please consult our LASA97 Internet/PC Training Center pages. Pointers to these Training Center pages can be found in the Academic Research Resources section of the LANIC Joint Projects page, as well as on the official LASA97 Congress site, which contains a weath of information on the Congress itself and on the city of Guadalajara.
• Our Search page has been redesigned and expanded, with a new focus on the growing number of search engines in Latin America. The page can be reached via the Search button located at the top of all LANIC pages.

• In the Brazil section of our African Diaspora page you will now find "Brazilian Black Movement", a paper presented at the Arthur R. Ashe Jr. Foreign Policy Library by Afro-Brazilian political scientist Diva Moreira. Diva Moreira is the founder of Casa Dandara and currently Director of the Municipal Secretariat for Black Community Affairs in Belo Horizonte, MG. This site is hosted by the TransAfrica Forum in Washington, DC.
• Country resources from The Political Database of the Americas, Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University, have been added to our Peru, Chile, and Uruguay pages.
• The site Economia Social de Mercado, has been added to our Peru page.
• Our Travel page has now a link to Art Worshops in Guatemala.

• The renovation continues at LANIC. Now, the statistics has been redesigned. We added country-specific resources, new regional resources, well known statistics research resources, and other clearinghouses available on the Internet.
• New links in our Agriculture page: Ancient Raised Field Agriculture in Bolivia, and Extension Agropecuaria, both in the Non-Government Resources section.
• The Balneario Camboriu, in Santa Catarina, Brazil, has been added to the Brazil section of our Travel page.
• The VII Transborder Forum of Libraries in Ciudad Juarez Mexico, can be found in the Newsgroups & Networks section of our Libraries page.
• S.L.C.C. a Spanish School in Dominican Republic, has been added to the Spanish Language Schools section of the Languages page.
• New link in the Peru page: Futbol Peruano en tiempo real, in the General Information section.
• A new addition to our Chile page: Prochile, in the Business & Economy section.
• The Art Gallery "Daniel Escardo" has been added to the Arts & Humanities section of our Uruguay page.

• The Human Rights page includes a variety of new resources.
  Latin American Resources:
  Committee in Solidarity with the Central American People (CISCAP)
  Democracy and Human Rights in the Americas
  Latin America & Caribbean Solidarity Association (LACASA)
  PeaceNet: Latin American Resources
  PeaceWorks
  Witness for Peace
  World Views: Latin America & Caribbean
  Argentina: Argentina Human Rights Information, First Page for Argentina, The Vanished Gallery
  Brazil: Rio Maria Committee
  Guatemala: Guatemala Initiative Austria
  Haiti: Haiti - December 1995, International Peace Academy Homepage, Washington Office on Haiti
  Mexico: Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, Zapatista Net of Autonomy and Liberation
  Other Countries: New Haven/Leon Sister City Project (Nicaragua)
  
• For those interested in anthropology and archeology, we added three new links to the Indigenous People section of the Mexico page: The Feathered Serpent Pyramid Pages, The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project, and Tarlton Law Library Resources on Aztec & Maya Law. These resources can also be found, now, in the Mexico section of the Indigenous page.
• New links in the Environment page: "Conservation Connection" in the General Resources section; and "Proyecto Biodiversidad Costero-Marina de República Dominicana" in the new Dominican Republic section.
• The "World Bank: Country Overviews" have been added to the Ecuador, Jamaica, and Haiti pages.

• Our site continues to be updated and re-organized, now is the turn of our ex-Publication page, which has been re-named Publishers & Bookdealers. In this page you can now find sections for Regional, Country, and International Resources. The ex-section on Electronic Publications, will form part of a new page "Electronic Publications" which will be available soon.

• Due to the growth of economy-related resources in the Latin American Internet, we are re-organizing the business, economy, and statistics subject pages. A new version of the Economy page is now available. This new page is divided into three sections: Academic Research Resources including economic publications and research centers in Latin America, Macroeconomic Data Resources, that compiles a long list of institutions that produce economic data, and economy-related News & Magazines.
• Billiken, a children's magazine from Argentina, has been added to the Regional Resources section of our K-12 page.
• The Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies & Documentation, has been added to the Argentina section of our Literature page; you can also find the journal Variaciones Borges, in the Journal & Magazines section of the same page.
• One new link in our Language page: the Summer Intensive Introductory Course on Yucatec Maya, can be found under the Mayan Languages section.
• The Distance Education section of our Higher Education has two new links: Adult Distance Education Internet Surf Shack, and NetMaster.
• The Venezuela page has two new links to COPEI, the Partido Social Cristiano and La Red del Estado Venezolano, both in the Government section.
• You can now find new resources for Brazil, including housing and population data, on our Sociology page.