What's New Archives: August 1997

• "La Economia de Venezuela" has been added to the Business page.
• New to the Labor page: CONFEDERACION GENERAL DE TRABAJADORES DEL PERU (CGTP).
• "Universo" has been added to the Astronomy section of the Science page.

• The Networking page has seen numerous additions:
  • IV Taller y Foro Centroamericano de Comunicaciones Electronicas, official site for the conference
  • Cybercafes in the Americas, an annotated Guide compiled by Ron Mader
  • La Formación Social del Computista: Una experiencia interdisciplinaria, probada y latinoamericana, a paper written by Irene Plaz y Luis German Rodriguez
  • Networking Latin America and the Caribbean: Creating Alternatives, by Luis German Rodriguez
  • Llego Internet...y ahora qué, by L. Veronica Lencinas y Gladys Isabel Villalba

• Art in America is a growing nexus of resources on exhibits, history, museums, projects, foundations and publications (etc.) relating to art in Latin America. We are pleased to announce it's addition to the Latin American Resources section of the Art page.
• Several of our Central America pages have been updated and expanded. For example, check out the following additions on the Nicaragua page: daily newspapers Barricada and La Tribuna in the News section; the Web Sites for Angel de la Guarda and the Asociación Nicaragüense de Productores y Exportadores de Productos No Tradicionales; plus new sections on the page for Sustainable Development and Spanish Language Programs.
• New links on the Belize page include the Belize Tourist Board, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and BelizeWeb.

• The Centro de Investigacion Economica y Prospectiva Politica de Mexico can now be found under the Academic Research Resources section of the Mexico page.
• Another addition to the Government section of the Mexico page: Instituto Mexicano de Transporte.
• You will find the Greater Denver Hispanic Guide under the Community section of theHispanic page.

• LANIC and the Fundación Histórica Tavera are pleased to announce publication on the WWW of the Guía preliminar de fuentes documentales etnográficas para el estudio de los pueblos indígenas de Iberoamérica. Contents of the Guía, published originally by the Fundación Tavera as a set of hypertext files on floppy disk, have been converted to HTML by LANIC staff, and the entire collection is now hosted on our Web site.

  The Guía is an indispensable source for scholars conducting research on indigenous peoples of the Americas. It contains detailed descriptions of the holdings related to indigenous peoples at hundreds of libraries and archives throughout Latin America, the U.S. and Europe. You will find a link to the Guía on our Joint Projects page.

• HAPI Online, an index of Latin American publications, has been added to the Newsgroups & Network Resources section of our Libraries & Archives page.
• Television Nacional de Chile (TVN) can now be found in the News & Periodicals section of the Chile page.
• New links in our Uruguay page: Virtual Museum of Arts El Pais, in the Arts & Culture section; and Internet Force-Uruguay, in the Network & Information Services section.
• Cybercafes in the Americas has been added to the Regional Resources section of the Travel page. In the same page you can now find Turismo and Geografia, in the Colombia section; and BBB-Sociedad de Servicios Selectos, in the Costa Rica section.
• You can now find in the Reference page, a complete updated section on Research and Grants Institutions with 12 new links. In the same page, the sources Full-text science journals on the 'Net; History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Infomine-Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computers & Math; and NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program; have been added to the Science & Technology part of the Scholarly Research Resources section.

• You can now find Book Reviews en Espaņol, in the Regional Resources section of our Publishers page.
• Alerta al conocimiento, a service from REUNA, Chile, can be found in the Education section of our Chile page.
• A new section listing general directories to find Scholarly Research Resources in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science & Technology, has been added to the Reference page.
• The Cinema page has new links to Latin American Resources: Film & Television: A Short Bibliography from the UC Berkeley Libraries, and The Movies, Race and Ethnicity: Latinos.
  International Resources: Festivals, Film Resources, and Film & Video Resources.
• The Argentina page has the following new resources: General: Proyecto Alsur: Argentina, Internet & Connectivity: FAQ-file from the Gardel Service Provider, News & Newspapers: Interlink Headline News, REDiario: Kiosko -- Prensa Argentina, Science & Technology: Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnologia, and WWW Servers: Internet Servers in Argentina.
• The following links have been added to the Brazil page: Academic Research Resources: Prossiga - Rei, Instituto de Estudos Avancados da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Discussion Groups: Ponto de Encontro - Prossiga: Chat do CNPq, General: Brazil: The Persistence of Inequality (NACLA), and Travel & Tourism: Old Post Cards From Brazil.
• The Art page offers several new listings:
  Under Latin American Resources, the Latin American Art Resource Project. In the Mexico section, Osiris, Textile Art of Chiapas Maya, and a new page on Frida Kahlo. From Uruguay, El Museo Virtual de Artes El Pais (MUVA), from Brazil Brazil's Landless Movement: A Photo Exhibit, Critica e Historia da Arte, and in Other Countries, Arte en Colombia. Finally, in International Resources, Virtual Exhibits on the World Wide Web.
• The Brazil section of the African Diaspora page now includes the Companhia Etnica de Danca. In Cuba, you will find Musica Yoruba, and in Other Countries Historia de Puerto Rico: El Negro. The International Resources section now includes WWW Virtual Library: African Studies.
• The Latin American Resources section of the Development page includes Fundacion Redes y Desarrollo (Funredes), the Latin America Working Group, and the Latin American Art Resource Project. A new section on Guatemala includes Asociacion de Rescate y Conservacion de Vida Silvestre, Comision Nacional del Medio Ambiente de Guatemala, Defensores de la Naturaleza, and Guatemala's Environmental Groups. In Other Countries you will find Accion Ecologica of Ecuador and the Red Electronica de Desarrollo Solidario of Chile. Plenty is a new addition to International Resources.
• Look in the Brazil section of the History page for the Revista Eletronica de Historia do Brasil. In Other Countries you will find Boletin Puerto Rico en Breve, Historia de Puerto Rico: El Negro, Revista Emeritense from Venezuela and Viaje al Pasado from Argentina.
• The Machu Picchu Library has joined Regional Resources: The Andes on the Indigenous page. The Maya section now includes Maya Perspectives: photos essays and video, Semanario Este Sur - Chiapas, Textile Art of Chiapas Maya, and Yax Te Maya Educational Foundation.
• A link to the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes can now be found under the Government and Public Administration section of the Mexico page.

• The Las Americas Crime Review, an English-language news service focusing on crime in Latin America, is now in the Regional Resources section of our sociology page.