What's New Archives: October 1997

• The K-12 Education page has new resources in the following sections.
  • Latin American Resources: Cartalera, links to educational pages in Spanish for K-12 children, parents & teachers; Little Explorer's Dictionary, an English-Spanish Picture Dictionary with audio
  • Argentina: Escuela de Comercio Nro. 4, with information on an I*EARN project; SIPTED: Educacion Secundaria Abierta a Distancia.
  • Mexico: Centro Eucativo Juan de Dios Peza
  • International Resources: dictionary.com, a reference page for writing skills & computer terminology; Electric Library, a searchable text and multimedia database; Kendall's Kids Sites, a plethora of educational and recreational resources

• If you can't find computer terms in any dictionary you own, The Jargon File might help on the Reference page. Also new to that page are the Argentine Business Directory and the Latin America Development Archive, with articles and data sets from Johns Hopkins University.

• New to the Jamaica page is a section on education, the Jamaican Financial sector's take on the economy, various links on the Jamaican Links page, the Port Authority, and CVM TV.

• The Trade page has been updated with several additional resources, including CEPAL and the Emerging Markets Directory. New sources of information on trade in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and more.
• Several links have been added to the Business and Finance page.

• Women In Technology International is now in International Resources on the Women's Studies page. WITI has sponsored the Take Your Children on the Internet Week of 1997, which site can be found now in the International Resources section of the K-12 Education page.

• Discuss music on the Haiti page with Konpa Online, view art in the Portobello Gallery, or check out the Haiti business directory. The embassy in Washington is back online in the government section.
• The Emerging Markets Directory, a list of links from Latin America and around the world, is on the Government page, while news from the UN's Universidad para la Paz is on the Newspapers page.
• A brief note: The Electronic Publications page has been renamed the Journals & Magazines site. Conference Proceedings are now on the Reference page and online books are on the Publishers page.

• On our K-12 resources page, you will find a link to a new website in the International Resources section. EDSITEment is a joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI Communications Corp., and the National Trust for the Humanities. LANIC's K-12 page was selected by EDSITEment as one of the 20 best humanities web sites on the World Wide Web.
• Two contemporary poets have joined the Argentina section of our Women's Studies page. The pages devoted to Diana Bellissi and Alejandra Pizarnik contain poems and biographical data; there is also an article on Pizarnik which was first published in the Argentine magazine Feminaria.
• The Bolivia page has a few new links to announce. The Centro de Documentacion e Informacion Bolivia (CEDIB) is new to the General Information page; the Bolivian Times, an English-language newspaper, is new to the News section; and the United Nations Development Program, Bolivia is a new link in the Government page.
• The Guyana page has been newly redesigned and now contains a new section for Government & Politics. New links include:
  • The 1997 General Elections, The Sustainable Development Networking Programme, Guyana's National Development Strategy;
  • Three Political Parties home pages, including People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/CIVIC), People's National Congress (PNC), and Working Peoples' Alliance (WPA);
  • The Guyana Chronicle, now in the News section; and
  • Maps of Guyana, now in the General Information section.

• In the Sociology page there is a new section: Electronic Publications. Here you will find a big amount of texts with analysis about Latin American social reality. There are links from Brazil, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Nicaragua, Uruguay and France.

• Compare the cost of living in Mexico D.F. to Brasilia, or U.S. cities using The Salary Calculator on the Reference page. Instructions are also available in Spanish.
  Other new reference additions include:
  • Searchable News Sites (also on the News page);
  • Scores of reference links on the Needle in a Cyberstack site;
  • The Cuba e-mail directory, also on the country page;
  • The new Britannica Internet Guide, touted as a more selective search engine;
  • No Web access? If you have e-mail, you can ask Iliad to search for you and send you the results electronically as a service of the NASA Learning Technologies Project.

• Stumped by math? New to the Science page is a link to a glossary of math mistakes and how to avoid them.

• Visitors to the Dominican Republic page now may e-mail a House of Deputies leader, learn about tsunamis from the Civil Defense, or check out the latest economic statistics from the Central Bank. Other new links:
  • Learn about exports from CEDOPEX, industrial zones from the Corporación de Fomento Industrial, or labor issues from the Labor Secretary;
  • Find general information on La Página de Enlaces Dominicanas and Henk's Dominican Republic page;
  • Human rights watchers may visit the Instituto de Investigación, Documentación y Derechos Humanos;
  • See pictures of the members of Congress, but only the House is fully on line.

• Several new links have been added to the Sociology page. You can find new Research and Study Centers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela sections.

• Telephone Directories from Latin America and around the world are now available on the Reference page. Use the Area Decoder link to search for rate costs for international cities.

• Are you stuck on a word in Brazilian Portuguese, or would you like to know the meaning of Boricua in Taino? Find the answers using the new links on the Reference page:
  • Dictionaries are reorganized by language, ranging from English, Spanish and Portuguese to Spanglish, Taino and computer terms. Search more than 100 dictionaries using Onelook or test your grammar with The Hampstead School (English) or Ciberduvidas da lingua Portuguesa (Portuguese);
  • Encyclopedias such as the Smithsonian Encyclopedia and the Michigan Electronic Library are available;
  • The General Reference has more resources, including Martindale's Reference Desk, the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the United Nations homepage and the U.S. Census;

• The Science section has new links to The Why Files, the Life Science Dictionary, ScienceNet, and more than 5,000 calculators.

• The Government page now has several new links, including:
  • Puerto Rico, a new listing of government offices;
  • The House of Representatives in Brazil;
  • The Mexican consular advisory on the 1996 immigration law;
  • In Costa Rica, the Central Bank, the National Bank, the socialized health care system, the National Emergency Commission and the trade promoter.

• On the Electronic Publications page, you may now link to the Journal of Latin American Studies, a collection of academic writings published by Cambridge University Press. It's free (for now) but you must register to enter.

• In the Chile page have been added new links that provide daily or weekly news from several magazines: Hoy, Ercilla and Que Pasa, and from a newspaper: La Tercera.

• A CD-ROM Catalogue from UNESCO has been included in the Libraries & Archives page.

• The Travel page has been updated with several new links to informative pages such as Warriors of the Amazon, Ice Mummies of the Incas, and News, Media, Art & Travel in Ecuador.
• New additions to the Trade page include a new section for trade-related NGO's, more resources on border trade and Trade News.

• Attention urban and rural planners: The Puerto Rico Planning Board, which controls zoning, and the Department of Transportation and Public Works are now on LANIC. Learn about zoning or the department's much discussed plan to build an Urban Train to reduce traffic jams.
• Other new additions include Puerto Rico's budget for fiscal year 1997, which ended June 30, and reports on a roundtable discussion about journalism on the island, where newspapers are booming.

• LANIC's Venezuela page has been updated with a number of new links, including:
  • The Ministerio de Sanidad y Asistencia Social, Aragua Online and MeridaNet, now in the Government & Politics page;
  • Diario de Chacao, a major newspaper from the Chacao State;
  • The Banco Central de Venezuela; and
  • A link to Gateven.net, another in the growing list of Venezuelan Internet Service providers.

• The News page now has several new links and brief descriptions designed to make it easier to navigate. Additions include:
  • A new section: Spanish-language newspapers in the continental United States, including the Wall Street Journal of the Americas;
  • More newspapers: La República en Chiapas, Mexico; Mercopress, a Uruguay-based news service on Mercosur; The Colombian Post, an English-language daily in Colombia; La República, a major daily in Costa Rica; The Guayana Chronicle in Georgetown; El Panamá América of Panama; El Metropolitano, a Venezuelan weekly; Diario de la Bolsa, a daily update of the Caracas stock market; Co Latino, a daily labor journal in El Salvador; and The Siglo News, the English-language version of Siglo Veintiuno in Guatemala City.

• The Guyana page has a new link to the Tourism Association of Guyana, while the Paraguay page has a new listing for the Instituto Superior de Estudios Humanisticos in Asuncion.

• Two new entries have been added to the Economy & Finance section of the Brazil page: Brazilian Economy, by the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social (BNDES), and Economia & Energia, a bi-monthly electronic journal in English and Portuguese. The Summit of the Americas Monitor, a bi-monthly newsletter published by the Summit of the Americas Center at Florida International University, also appears in the Magazines & Periodicals section of the Brazil page. This newsletter provides at-a-glance "monitoring" of the Summit Process - including updates of trade agreements, news briefs, issues of hemispheric concern, and a special section entitled "Eye on Hemispheric Trade."