What's New Archives: December 1997

• The Economy Page has been updated with numerous new links:
  • In the Macroeconomics Data Resources section: the Central Banks of Bolivia, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and socioeconomic data with regard to this countries; an Economic Report about Chile made by the Chilean Economic Development Agency, and other data from the National Institute of Statistics of this country.
  • In the News & Magazines section there are new electronic journals: Ambito Financiero (Argentina), Economia y Negocios - La Nacion (Costa Rica), Diario Hoy - Seccion Dinero (Ecuador), En Cifras - Revista de Energia y Minas (Peru).
  • In the Other News Sources: Revista Latinomineria, containing information about mining, metallurgical, coal and petroleum sectors in Latin America.

• There are some new connections in the Higher Education Page:
  • In the Colleges and Universities Page now you can find the FASTA University (Argentina), and the University of Piura (Peru).
  • In the International Resources have been added the Center for Multilingual and Multicultural Research (University of Southern California) and a list of Schools of International Affairs from all the world.

• Translate the web! The Altavista search engine has a new feature that translates web pages when you do a search. Try it from the Multilingual Dictionaries section of the Reference page.
• The Journalism page has new resources for journalists in Puerto Rico, including updated press releases from the Governor's office and a list of useful links.
• After some down time, the web sites of the Governor of Puerto Rico, the 78 municipalities and biographies of cabinet members are up and running. Also new to that page:
  • The Government Ethics Office, an autonomous government watchdog agency; WEPA!, a comprehensive search engine with a list of new sites; the organization of the government; and El Mundo de José Hudó, a collection of political and social caricatures by a local newspaper artist.
  • New to the Journals & Magazines page is the Caribbean Journal of Science, but you need Adobe Acrobat to read it.
• The home page for the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) is available on UT-LANIC on the Joint Projects and Hosted Databases page.

• The Literature Page has included new links to the works of Latin American authors:
  • In Cuba: Jose Lezama Lima, Eliseo Diego and Nicolas Guillen.
  • In Venezuela (new section): Andres Eloy Blanco and Francisco Herrera Luque.
  • In Brazil: Helena Parente Cunha.
  • In Mexico: Hernan Lara Zavala.
  • In Argentina: Maria Laura Pardo (poet and linguist).
  • In Regional Resources: Autores de la Patria Grande (literary and political writings from Latin America).
  • In Journals & Magazines: The Caribbean Writer on line (literary journal published by the University of the Virgin Islands), and Pasaje (published by the Instituto Iberoamericano de Cultura, Amsterdam).

• Sports, politics, entertainment and even exports from Trinidad & Tobago: they're all on the newly updated Journals & Magazines page:
  • Brazil: Imprensa, about journalism and communications; Istoe or for politics and culture; and PC Magazine Brazil for the latest from cyberspace.
  • Colombia: Cromos, politica y cultura.
  • Costa Rica: Reflexiones de la Universidad de Costa Rica, Guide, sobre turismo, y Toma de Pulso de la Universidad Nacional.
  • Ecuador: Blanco y Negro, suplemento investigativo de Diario Hoy; El Estadio, sobre deportes; Latitud Zero, sobre arte y cultura; y Timing Magazine, sobre mercadeo y negocios.
  • Other Latin American: Panama Virtual, Trinidad & Tobago Exporter, Belize First Magazine and Frontera, a U.S.-based magazine for hip Latino youth.

• The homepage for the Venezuelan state of Lara has a new listing the State and Municipal Resources section.
• The Sports page has two new additions to announce. They are the Corporacion Deportiva Fenix in Paraguay and the Confederacion Sudamericana de Futbol, known also as CONMEBOL.

• The Government page has several new additions to the Colombia section, including:
• The Senate and the House of Representatives;
• Reports and statistics from the Banco de la Republica, the Banco de Comercio Exterior and the Colombian Government Trade Bureau (English);
• A list of embassies;
• The Instituto de Seguro Social and the Instituto Colombiano de Reforma Agraria, including the 1994 agrarian reform law;
• The ministries of Justice and Law; National Education; and the Environment;
• Aeronautica Civil de Colombia, with flight statistics;
• From two major export industries: Ecopetrol and the Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia

• The Uruguay Page has added several new connections:
  • In the Government & Politics section there are new links to the Legislative Branch of Government, to the Education, Foreign, and Agriculture Ministries, and to Political Parties (Partido Colorado, Colorado Batllista, and Partido Socialista).
  • In the News & Periodicals, you can find new journals and magazines: Diario Cambio, Posdata, Cuadernos de Marcha, Contratapa.

• On December 12, 1531 the image of the Virgen of Guadalupe is believed to have miraculously appeared in Tepeyac near Mexico City. Today, Interlupe, The Virgin of Guadalupe Website has been added to the Mexico Page under the Popular Culture section. Also new to the Mexico Page, under the Indigenous section is the Chiapas School Project, an international effort to build the first autonomous indigenous junior high school in Oventic.

• The Statistics pages has several new resources to offer, including the 1997 Human Development Report and the United Nations Statistics Division
• Try the Technological and Commercial Information Promotion System or the Global Tradepoint Network as two noteworthy additions to the Trade page. Additional informative resources are IESCO (Import Export with Mexico) and The Mercosur by the International Development Research Center.

• The Cinema and Video page has been updated with several new links. Of particular interest is LAVA, The Latin American Video Archive, an excellent resource for information and distribution of independent productions.

• A new page dedicated to Journalism in Latin America is now available on LANIC. The page contains links to country resources for Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico; a section on professional development, including ethics discussions, listservs, and academic training; and a section on investigative journalism, which is attracting great interest throughout the region.

• New to the Newspapers page:
  • An English-language version of El Universal, a major daily newspaper in Mexico;
  • LatinoLink, which offers daily updates on Latin America in English;
  • Zeta, the newspaper owned by Jesus Blancornelas, who was shot four times on November 27, 1997. His bodyguard was killed. The shootings followed a series of attacks against journalists this year in Mexico.

• The electronic newspaper El Venezolano has been added to the Newspapers section of the Venezuela page.
• The Venezuela page has a new link to the Escuela Nacional de Administracion y Hacienda Publica, now in the Government section.
• The pharmaceuticals section of the Health page has a new link to La Farmacia Virtual, from the Universidad de Chile.

• InfoNation, the United Nations' new database of member countries is now on the Reference page.
• AfroCubaWeb, a compilation of links and information on Afro-Cubans, has been added to the Cuba page.
• El Telegrafo, one of the oldest newspapers in Ecuador, is on the Newspapers page.

• New resources for Bolivia have been added to the Statistics page, including the Central Bank of Bolivia, the Ministerio de Capitalizacion, and the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica.
• The Business page has been updated with South American Exchange Rates under regional financial resources and CBS Market Watch under news and periodicals.