What's New Archives: April 1998

April 30, 1998

• LANIC is pleased to announce the addition of the Granma Archives Index, a searchable Spanish-language list of articles published from 1965 to 1992 in the official daily newspaper of Cuba. Full-text articles are not available, but this database provides bibliographic references that can help you find the articles at the University of Texas at Austin's Benson Latin American Collection or other university libraries. Find the archive under the News section of the Cuba page, the Cuba section of the Newspapers page, and the Data Bases section of the Joint Projects page.

• UT-LANIC and National Public Radio Correspondent John Burnett are pleased to announce the release of the Sustainable Development Reporting Project (SDRP) Web Site. The SDRP is a year-long endeavor to look at the most promising and important sustainable development programs in Central America. The topics include sustainable forestry, ecotourism, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity protection, and endangered species protection. The stories were aired on NPR and have been rewritten for the Web, and are now hosted on LANIC, where they can be reached through the Sustainable Development section of our Joint Projects page.
• Read about the April 26 murder of Guatemalan Archbishop Monseñor Juan Jose Gerardi through the link on our Guatemala page to the Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado. The site includes the full text of Gerardi's April 24 speech presenting the Guatemala: Nunca Más report on human rights violations during the armed conflict.

• There are several new connections in the Chile Page:
  • In the Arts & Humanities section: Libro Chile, a review of Chilean books, authors and publishers; and a Brief History of Chilean Cinema.
  • In the Magazines section: Mensaje, a journal about culture, religion, politics, economy, and social rights; and Punto Final, journal with a left wing approach to Chilean politics.
  • In the Network & Information Services section: Radios de Chile, with a list of links.

• New to the Higher Education page:
  • In Chile: Universidad Gabriela Mistral.
  • In Colombia: Universidad Catolica de Oriente, Corporacion Universitaria de Ibague, Universidad Santo Tomas, Fundacion Universitaria de Boyaca, Universidad Industrial de Santander, and Universidad ICESI.

• Connections added in the Management page:
  • A new Latin American Resources section, including: Sociedad Latinoamerica de Estrategia (SLADE) with information about the XI Latin American Strategy Conference ('Strategies in the Uncertainty', Cochabamba, Bolivia, May 28-30, 1998); Enlace Andino, with company directories and other information; and a Latin American Guide for the Public Administration of Culture.
  • In the Colombia section: Instituto Colombiano de Administracion (INCOLDA); Programa para la Pequena y Mediana Empresa (PYME), from the Corporacion Universitaria de Ibague.
  • In the Costa Rica Section: Escuela de Administracion de Negocios, Universidad de Costa Rica.

• New to the Labor page:
  • In the Argentina section: Gremio Nacional de Docentes e Investigadores Universitarios and Sindicato de la Industria Cinematografica Argentina.
  • Guatemala: Codigo del Trabajo.
  • Chile: Revista Juridica del Trabajo.
  • Venezuela: Legislacion laboral.
  • Mexico: Frente Autentico del Trabajo (FAT).
  • International Resources: Elementos para una Espiritualidad del Trabajo, from the John Paul II's Laborem Exercens.

• The Municipio de Juana Diaz, and the Administración de Servicios Médicos have been added to the Puerto Rico page.

• Reli, an electronic magazine based in Costa Rica, has returned to the Journals & Magazines page.

• New to the Newspapers page are Diario Extra, of Guayaquil, Ecuador and Diario Expreso, a national newspaper.

• Welcome to the moon! That's the greeting from NASA these days as it carries out the first moon mission in 25 years. The Lunar Prospector, accessible on the Science page, is searching for ice on the moon's surface.

• The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, and some have relevance to Latin America, particularly Mexico. The prizes, listed on the Journalism page under the Awards section, include a New York Times series on drug corruption in Mexico, and a Baltimore Sun series on Shipbreaking, including a report titled, "You're Going to Die Anyway," about labor in the border town of Brownsville.

• AmericasNet, a one-stop source for the latest information on the Second Presidential Summit of the Americas slated for this weekend in Santiago, Chile, is now on the Government page. Information, including a primer on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

• The Committee to Protect Journalists confirmed the slayings last year of journalists in five Latin American countries: Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Guatemala, according to the committee's reports now available on the Journalism page. Find reports under country headings or browse the index under the Censorship section. Other new links:
  • The CPJ report includes two special reports on Mexico: "Breaking Away: Mexico's Press Challenges the Status Quo," and "Dangerous Profession;"
  • Prensanet, a list of journalists in Colombia; and
  • The U.S.-based Wire Service Guild (WSG).

• Web sites for the the International Court of Justice, in English and French, and INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, in English, Spanish and French, have been added to the General Resources section of the Law & Justice page.

• After a brief hiatus, Editorial Andres Bello, Editorial Santillana and LOM Ediciones have returned to the Chile section of the Publishers page. Other new links:
  • LibroChile, a magazine about the publishing industry in Chile; and
  • The Professional Writing Supersite, tips and information about g etting published in the United States and abroad.

• The arts are heating up in Puerto Rico with these new additions to the page:
  • Vivir, the web site for university students;
  • Bar las Virtudes, a literary haven;
  • Evangelina Colon, singer; and
  • A site dedicated to pop star Ricky Martin.

• New links to the Jamaica page:
  • Jammin Reggae Archives, featuring Bob Marley;
  • Jamaica: An introduction, a comprehensive look at the country;
  • And the political parties, the Jamaica Labour Party and the National Democratic Movement (NDM). The PNP is already on the pages.

• The Venezuela page has a new link to Producto, a trade magazine of the Venezulean marketing and public relations industry.

• Several connections have been added to the Labor page:
  • In the Argentina section: Asociacion de Empleados Bancarios, Ministerio del Trabajo y Seguridad Social, and Union Obrera de la Republica Argentina (UOCRA).
  • In the Brazil section: Sindiluta, Jornal do Sindicato dos Quimicos e Plasticos; Tribunal Superior do Trabalho; Lida, Revista do Ministerio do Trabalho.
  • In the Chile section: Ministerio del Trabajo y Prevision Social and Instituto Nacional de Capacitacion Profesional.
  • In the Other Countriessection: Departamento de Estudios Laborales, Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (Venezuela); CINTERFOR - Formacion y Trabajo en America Latina (Uruguay); Trabajo y Recursos Humanos, Puerto Rico Government; Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje (CostaRica); and others.

• The Women's Studies page now has two new links:
  • A Chicana Feminist Home Page, in the United States: Chicana & Latina Issues section.
  • A page on gender by the CANTERA organization, in the Nicaragua section.

• In the Argentina page there have been added several links in the News and Magazines section: Diario El Popular (Olavarria), Ecos Diarios (Necochea), El Litoral (Santa Fe), Pregon (Jujuy), La Nueva Provincia (Bahia Blanca), and Carta Abierta with news from San Isidro, Tigre, Pilar, Vicente Lopez, Azul y San Fernando (Buenos Aires).

• The Literature page have new connections:
  • In the Journals and Magazines section: Amazonian Literary Review: a journal dedicated to the literary traditions of the Amazonian Basin; Didascalia: information and debate about Latin American Theater; Argos: Mexican literary journal; Barcelona Review: International Journal of Contemporary Hispano-American Literature.
  • In the Chile country resources section: Escritores.cl, with current Chilean Literature
  • In the Other Latin American and Caribbean Countries section: Bar Las Virtudes, with Latin American Literature of avant-garde.

• LANIC announces the addition of two new Country Pages:
  • St. Lucia, population 150,630, is between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean just north of Trinidad and Tobago. It obtained independence from the United Kingdom on February 22, 1979 and is now a parliamentary democracy.
  • The Bahamas, a chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida, is home to some 275,941 people. The country obtained independence, also from the United Kingdom, on July 10, 1973, and is known formally as the "Commonwealth of the Bahamas."

• It happened 100 years ago, but modern technology brings it right to your computer. Visit the "The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War Home Page" under Scholarly Research Resources on the Reference page, along with the following new links:
  • The Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress
  • MetaBase, a database that has bibliographic registries from various repositories in Costa Rica; and
  • Information in Spanish on how to cite electronic resources;

• New to the Journals & Magazines page:
  • From the Interhemispheric Resource Center: Border Lines Monthly, focusing on the United States and Mexico; Cross Border Links, which aims to promote citizen diplomacy and transborder organizing by serving the needs of global activists for information and analysis; Foreign Policy in Focus; and Progressive Response, foreign policy briefs;
  • Theorethikos, the internet magazine of the Universidad Francisco Gavidia in El Salvador; and
  • Producto On-line, a business-related magazine in Venezuela.

• The Fundacion Institucionalidad y Justicia, Inc., or Foundation for Institutionality and Justice, Inc., a non-profit, non-partisan organization promoting the establishment of an independent and efficient judiciary in the Dominican Republic, is new to the Law & Justice page and the country page.

• Two weeks ago, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo proposed constitutional reforms regarding indigenous rights, saying the 1992 amendment was "insufficient." Critics say it's a political move, but the president says he cannot wait for the Zapatistas to return to the bargaining table. See the proposals on the Law & Justice page. Other new links:
  • Tarlton Law Library Resources on Aztec and Mayan Law;
  • The Supremo Tribunal Federal in Brazil, with lots of links to jurisprudence;
  • The International Interagency Fugitive Lookout;
  • International Justice Statistics; and at the very bottom;
  • The WWLIA Legal Dictionary.