What's New Archives: July 1998

• New connections in the Government & Political Science page:
  • Chile:
    • Instituto de Ciencia Politica, Universidad de Chile;
    • Camara de Diputados;
    • Senado de la Republica.
  • Uruguay:
    • Direccion General Impositiva, including a complete archive of legal norms;
    • Constituciones, Codigos y otros documentos legales.
  • Argentina: Revista Mujeres en Politica.
  • Regional Resources: Parlamento Andino.
  • General Resources: Online Resource Guide to Political Inquiry, by Dr. Michael Dartnell, Department of Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

• Links added in the Women & Gender Studies page:
  • Uruguay (new section):
    • Cotidiano Mujer, feminist journal;
    • LOLApress, international feminist magazine;
    • La Republica de las Mujeres.
  • Chile: Ñimincan - Tejiendo en la Red, on indigenous women.
  • Chicana & Latina Issues: Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Homepage.
  • International Resources:
    • METIS Project, for spreading information "to report the violence against disabled women both the most evident aspects -abuse and maltreatment- and the most subtil ones such as the use of the image, domestic, social and institutional discrimination";
    • Feminist Majority Foundation, with information and links;
    • Women's Human Rights Resources, from the Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto.

• There are several additions in the Literature page:
  • Mexico: "Los de Abajo", full text of the famous Mariano Azuela's work.
  • Peru: La Literatura Peruana en el WWW, by Alfredo Elejalde (Pontificia Universidad Catolica), with a lot of texts, essays and other links.
  • Chile: Andres Bello y la Universidad de Chile.
  • Venezuela: Andres Mata.
  • Regional Resources: Center for Amazonian Literature and Culture.
  • Journals and Magazines: El Cocodrilo Poeta Virtual, journal of poetry (Mexico).

• New to the Higher Education page:
  • Bolivia:
    • Universidad Tecnica de Oruro;
    • Comite Ejecutivo de la Universidad Boliviana, central organism of the Bolivian system of universities;
    • Universidad Mayor, Real y Pontificia San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca.
  • Chile:
    • Universidad Las Condes;
    • Universidad de Antofagasta;
    • Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion.
  • Argentina:
    • Universidad Catolica de Cordoba;
    • Universidad de Congreso (Mendoza);
    • Universidad Nacional de Salta;
    • Universidad Catolica de Salta.
  • Colombia:
    • Universidad de San Buenaventura (Cali);
    • Universidad de Medellin.

There are several new links in the Cuba page:
• The Ultimate Cuban Page in the Internet Resources section
• In Arts & Culture, there is the Pagina de Musica Cubana
• In Organizations/Institutes/Human Rights section, the page for the Movimiento Humanista Evolucionario Cubano

New links added to the International Resources of the Development page:
• International Center for Sustainable Human Development
• Sustainable Development Reporting Project
• Women and International Development at Michigan State University

New links have been added for Colombian dailies "El Diario del Otun" and "La Patria" on our Colombia and Newspapers pages.

• New links in the Art page:
  • Latin American Resources:
    • Art of Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • In the Cuba section:
    • Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island.
  • In the Chile section:
    • Homenaje a la Poesia Chilena.

• Many new links in the Sociology page:
  • State & Development (new subject section):
    • Sociedade e a Reforma do Estado, international seminar carried out in Brazil;
    • Centro Latinoamericano de Administracion para el Desarrollo (CLAD);
    • Seminario Reforma del Estado y Grupos de Presion, by Alejandro Estevez, Universidad de Buenos Aires;
    • RIADEL, network for the interchange of information about local development in Latin America "especially designed for investigators, trainers, politicians and public policy makers concerned with this field".
  • Law & Crime: Impact of the Illegal Narcotic Trade on the Economic and Legal Institutions of Colombia, by Patricia McRae (full text).
  • Globalization:
    • Globalizacion, Texts from Revista NAyA (Argentina);
    • La Globalizacin, las multinacionales y las nuevas relaciones de interdependencia compleja en la decada de los 90, by Ander Jimenez Marcos;
    • Globalization, journal on economy, society and culture, including more links.
  • Population & Demography: Centro de Estudios de Poblacion - CENEP (Argentina).
  • Social Analysis Publications:
    • Foro Virtual, journal on politics, economics and social analysis, from the Corporacion del Tercer Milenio (Chile);
    • Cinta de Moebio, journal on the epistemology of the Social Sciences, Universidad de Chile
  • Research & Study Centers:
    • Departamento de Sociologia, Universidad de Sao Paulo (Brazil);
    • Centro de Estudios Publicos (Chile);
    • Programa de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) en Costa Rica.

• New connections in the Anthropology & Archaeology page:
  • Mexico: Zonas arqueologicas del Estado de Mexico (Malinalco, Teotihuacan, Teotenango, Calixtlahuaca).
  • Peru: Museo de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia del Peru.
  • Regional Resources:
    • Brass / El Pilar Project: Mayan site on the Belize / Guatemala border;
    • The Mayan Ruins, in Yucatan and Campeche.

• There are several new links in the Labor page:
  • Peru: Revista de Trabajo, published by the Ministry of Labor.
  • Brazil: Boletim da Intersindical Portuaria do Estado de Sao Paulo.
  • Guatemala: Ministerio del Trabajo y Prevision Social.
  • In the Latin American Resources section: Panorama Laboral 1997 en America Latina y El Caribe, by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
  • In the International Resources section:
    • UAW - International Union, with news and information on unions and labor solidarity;
    • Center for Working-Class Studies, at the Youngstown State University (Ohio) -center devoted to the study of working-class life and culture.

• New connections in the Women & Gender Studies page:
  • In the Other Countries section: Consejo Nacional de la Mujer, Panama.
  • In the Latin American Resources section: Reflexiones -Essays on Spanish American Women Writers.
  • In the International Resources section: Women and the Global Economy, excerpts from a comprehensive report that "reveals the hidden side of the globalisation of world trade and the ways in which women workers are affected in the employers' search for flexibility and competitiveness".

• New to the Management page:
  • Academic & Research Centers:
    • Uruguay: Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Administrativas, Universidad de la Republica.
    • El Salvador: Instituto Superior de Economia y Administracion de Empresas (ISEADE).
    • Peru: Centro de Apoyo al Sector Informal (CASI), NGO specialized in training programs, consulting and information on the small enterprise.
    • Other Countries: Facultad de Ciencias Economicas, Administracion y Auditoria, Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil (Ecuador); and Carrera de Ingenieria Comericial, Universidad Nur (Bolivia).
  • Journals and Other Publications:
    • Chile: Correo de la Innovacion, published by the Ministry of Economy, for the promotion of innovation in the country.
    • Mexico: Revista Gestion y Estrategia.
    • Peru: Gestion, journal of economy and business; and Avance Economico, with entrepreneurial and economic information.

• You can visit many new sites in the Anthropology & Anchaeology page:
  • Costa Rica: Gold Jade and Forest -Precolumbian art from the Jade Museum and National Museum-; and The Archeology of Costa Rica.
  • Peru:
    • Arqueologia del Peru, with references and photos on Chancay, Ichmay, Lima and Inca cultures;
    • Fondo Documentario de la Cultura Peruana (Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal), containing information on the Nazca and Machu Picchu sites, the colonial period and other anthropological and archaeological topics;
    • Project Ai Apaec for the difusion of Peruvian archaeology;
    • Archaeological Research in Peru, from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County;
    • Las Lineas de Nazca;
    • Museo Arqueologico de Chan Chan.
  • Argentina : Instituto de Arqueologia y Museo (Universidad Nacional de Tucuman) and Noticias de Antropologia y Arqueologia, from Equipo NAyA.
  • Chile : Cultura Aconcagua; Lenguas y Culturas de Chile (Universidad de Chile); and Pagina Mapuche, from the Rehue Foundation.

• Some new connections in the Higher Education page:
  • Ecuador: Universidad del Azuay and Pontificia Universidad Catolica.
  • Honduras: Universidad Nacional Autonoma.
  • Mexico: Mexican Association for International Education.
  • Peru: Gaceta Universitaria, with news and information on universities and institutes
  • In the Grants & Scholarship section: Funding Opportunities -information provided by the Community of Science; it is presented as "the most comprehensive online source of research grants in the world", with more than 13,000 funding opportunities.

• A number of new links have beeen added to the Statistics page.
  • Argentina- the Oficina de la Cepal en Buenos Aires
  • Brazil- Bases de Dados Brasileiras
  • Guatemala- Estadisticas económicas
  • Under Other Countries, the Oficina Nacional de Estadistica y Censos of the Dominican Republic

• Aztlan, A Journal of Chicano Studies from UCLA's Ethnic Studies Program and the Hispanic/Latino News Service have been added to LANIC's Hispanic/Latino pages.