What's New Archives: February 1999

February 26, 1999

• New links in the Mexico page:
  • New links in the Arts & Humanities area:
    • Letras Libres Interactivas: E-Magazine
    • Murals of Fernando Castro Pacheco in Merida Yucatan
    • Photographs of Mexico City: UAM Project
  • In the Economy, Finance and Trade area:
    • Grupo de Rio: Information on the Meeting Scheduled in Mexico in 1999
  • In the Politics section:
    Grupo Parlamentario del Partido Accion Nacional (PAN): Senate
  • In the Other Resources section of the Academic page:
    • Bobby Vaughn's Black Mexico Homepage
    • Comunicacion e Informacion de la Mujer, A.C.: News about women and feminist issues
    • Programa de Investigacion Cualitativa en Salud
    • Proyecto Internet: ITESM
  • In the Academic Resources section of the NAFTA Resources page:
    • The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade
    • The NAFTA Secretariat

• More links in the History page:
  • Venezuela:
    • Simón Bolívar, Textos Cardinales, including: Carta de Jamaica, Decreto de Guerra a Muerte, Discurso de Angostura, Manifiesto de Cartagena and others;
    • Ley de Abolición de la Esclavitud en Venezuela.
  • Chile:
    • La Guerra del Pacífico;
    • The Truth about Pinochet: documents and links from Bath, United Kingdom.
  • Cuba:
    • Che Guevara, from Granma International, including the Che's Diary in Bolivia (1966 - 1967), and Che's Farewell Letter to Fidel (1965).
  • Argentina:
    • Falckland 15 years on: information about the war.
  • Brazil:
    • Temas de Historia, including documents on slavery and the change from monarchy to republic.
    • Canudos 100 años, on the Canudos war.
  • Other Countries:
    • The Haitian Revolution (1794-1804), with information on Toussaint L'Ouverture.
  • In the Latin American Resources section:
    • Histoire et Sociétés de l'Amérique latine, by Equipe Histoire et Societé de l'Amérique latine - Aleph;
    • Carta de Colón anunciando el descubrimiento;
    • Les Problémés de l'Amérique latine, by Alexander von Humboldt.

• New connections in the Economy page:
  • In the Macroeconomic Information & Analysis section:
    • Argentina: Argentina Business and Economy Page, Latinvestor.
    • Brazil: Brazil Trends: Monthly reports from BankBoston.
    • Colombia:
      • Bolsa de Bogota;
      • Bolsa de Medellin;
      • Colombia Business and Economy.
    • Mexico: Economic and Financial Data for Mexico, International Monetary Fund's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB).
    • Peru: Publicaciones de la Facultad de Ciencias Economicas de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
    • Regional Macro Economic Data Resources: Balance of Payments Statistics: Annual reports from the International Monetary Fund.
  • In the News & Magazines section:
    • Colombia: Noticias Economicas de "El Colombiano".
    • Mexico: Mexico Business.
  • In the Academic Research Resources section:
    • Peru: Facultad de Ciencias Economicas, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima.
    • Argentina: XX World Congress of the International Economic Association that will take place in Buenos Aires, on August 23-27, 1999, hosted by the Asociacion Argentina de Economia Politica (AAEP).

• The Languages page has been updated to include:
  • Dictionaries of Lunfardo (Argentine Slang)
  • Hispañola, The Spanish Language School in Santo Domingo
  • Escuela de Español Sakribal, a professional school with a social outlook in Guatemala

• New links in Enlace Career Resource Links page.
  • Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.
  • Monster.com.
• El Rincon Musical Peruano has been added to Arts & Culture section in Peru page.

• The Maps of Latin America page has some new additions. In the Related Sites category at the bottom of the page, three different sets of Satellite and Meteorological Map links have been introduced. Hopefully, this provides a further use for this page to all those with interests in Latin America.
  

• There are several links in the Performing Arts page:
  • In the Mexico area:
    • Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico
    • Ballet Folklorico de la Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
    • Ballet Folklorico de la Universidad de Colima
    • Ballet Folklorico de la Universidad de Guadalajara
    • Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez
    • Ballet Folklorico de la Universidad de Nayarit
    • Ballet Folklorico de la Universidad de Veracruz
    • Ballet Folklorico del Norte
    • Ballet Folklorico del Sur
    • Ballet folklorico "HUITZILIHUITL"
    • Ballet Folklorico Mixcoatl de la ciudad de Chihuahua, Mexico
    • Ballet Folklorico Mexico
    • Ballet Folklorico Mixteco
    • Ballet Folklorico "Quetzalli" de Veracruz
    • Compañia Danza de la Universidad Autonoma de Cd. Juarez
    • Compañia de Expresion Corporal "Espacio Agua Viva" de Chihuahua
    • Danza Folklorico de InstitutoTechnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Queretaro
    • Escuela Nacional de Danza Nellie y Gloria Campobello
    • Grupo Folklorico de Oaxaca A.C.

• There are several new connections in the History page:
  • Argentina:
    • Evita Peron Historical Research Foundation;
    • Islas Malvinas Argentinas: The war, antecedents and consequences;
    • Anti-terrorismo en Argentina: Information and documents;
    • Facultad de Historia y Letras, Universidad del Salvador.
  • Brazil:
    • Guia de Historia do Brasil, with many links to other sites on Brazilian history;
    • Historia da Republica do Brasil;
    • Regimen Militar: Historical information on military governments since 1964;
    • Revista de Historia Regional.
  • Mexico:
    • Mexican/Chicano History, including the history of the Toltec, Olmec, Mayan and Aztec people;
    • Time Line Overview of Mexican History, with summaries, maps, and photos;
    • Famous Historical People in the History of Mexico: Moctezuma, Hernan Cortes, Cuauhtemoc, Doña Marina (La Malinche), Porfirio Díaz, Venustiano Carranza, Emiliano Zapata and many others.
  • Other countries:
    • Historia de Venezuela.

• A link to the Google! Search Engine has been added to the "Search the World" section of our Search page.

• Career Resource Links page has been created in Enlace page.

• New link added to the Newspapers page:
  • In the Puerto Rico section:
    • Puerto Rico Herald.

• New links were added to the Travel page:
  • In the Cuba section:
    • Cuba!, by A. Nash Travel, extensive information about traveling in Cuba.
  • In the Directories & Travel Search Engines- Airfares, Car Rental, Hotels section:
    • Hostels.com, information about travel planning, news, advice, etc.
    • The Wordlwide Hostel Guide, addresses of all Youth Hostels.

• A link to the Foro Mexicano sobre Biodiversidad y Ecoturismo has been added to the Internet Resources section of our Sustainable Development Reporting Project site.

• Check out the following new links for Central America:
  • The Superintendencia de Bancos y Otras Instituciones Financieras in the Government section of the Nicaragua page;
  • The Procuraduria General de la Republica in the Government section of the Costa Rica page;
  • The Superintendencia de Bancos in the Government section of the Guatemala page;
  • Conectandonos al futuro de El Salvador in the Academic Research Resources section of the El Salvador page.

• New pages added to the Uruguay page:
  • In the Arts & Culture section:
    • Leo Masliah, musician and novelist Web Page.
  • In the Government and Politics section:
    • Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN), Tupamaros.
  • In the News & Periodicals:
    • Comentario Nacional, selected news.
    • Diario El Pueblo, newspaper from the city of Salto.
    • Diario El Telegrafo, newspaper from the city of Paysandu.
    • Washington.Post:Uruguay, news published by The Washington Post and Associated Press about Uruguay.
  • In the Travel & Tourism section:
    • Hostels in Uruguay, addresses of Uruguay's Youth Hostels.
• Cultura del Ecuador has been added to Ecuador page Arts & Culture section.

• New pages have been found for the Argentina page:
  • In the Academic Research Resources section:
    • Academia Nacional del Tango.
    • Academia Portena del Lunfardo.
    • Astor Piazzolla, by Astor Piazzolla's Foundation.
    • Astor Piazzolla, by The Center for Astor Piazzolla on the Interet.
  • In the General section:
    • Alejandro Dolina's Home Page, with some of the artist's taped radio programs.
    • Martin Fierro, entire poem in Spanish with illustrations.
  • In the Other Sources of Information:
    • Agencia DYN, Agencia de Diarios y Noticias en Espanol, Ingles y Portugues.
    • Mercopress On Line, information about Argentina and the Mercosur.
    • Radio Tango Argentina, Radio from La Plata, Buenos Aires providing Tangos online and links related to Tango all around the world.
    • WashingtonPost.com: Argentina.
  • In the Travel & Tourism section:
    • Photo Argentina, personalize photographic trips with a team of photographers.

• New connections added to the Literature page:
  • Argentina:
    • The Garden of Forking Paths: A Jorge Luis Borges Web Site, maintained by Allen Ruch in Pennsylvania. It includes a complete bibliography of Borges' works in English;
    • The Garden of Jorge Luis Borges: This is a page by Paul Willenberg with stories, essays, and poems by Borges and critical essays on him. Some of the Borges' writtings here are The Library of Babel, The Zahir, Circular Ruins, and The Mirrors of Enigma;
    • Taller Literario (narrativa) de Emilio Matei, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
  • Brazil:
    • Literatura Brasileira: A great collection of electronic literay texts, including Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões; Machado de Assis' Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, and D. Casmurro; Aluizo Azevedo's O Mulato; and many more;
    • O Cantinho dos Poetas, by Vera Regina Caetani.
  • Mexico:
    • Octavio Paz: Poems, comments, and more links.
  • Journals & Magazines:
    • Ciberletras: Journal of literary criticism dedicated to the literature of Spain and Spanish America, Lehman College, Bronx, New York;
    • Revista Ler, from Brazil.
  • International Resources:
    • Comedias del Siglo de Oro español, from the Association of Hispanic Classical Theater. There are dozens of works of Calderón de la Barca (La dama duende, La vida es sueño, No hay burlas con el amor, etc.), Cervantes, Ruiz de Alarcon, Tirso de Molina (El Burlador de Sevilla, El amor médico, Los celos con celos se curan, etc.) , Lope de Vega, and others.

• On the Immigration page, it is highly recommended that you visit some of the new additions to this compelling subject area. In the section of Academic & Research Resources, two new links are:
  • El Centro de información sobre migraciones en América Latina
  • REFWORLD of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees
  
  
• Additionally, in the section of Articles & Publications, two volumes of curriculum units with articles concerning Immigration have been posted from the resources of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute:
  • Immigrants and American Identity
  • Remaking America: Contemporary U.S. Immigration

• A very important link has been added to the Journals & Magazines and Science page:
  SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online - is a Brazilian website disseminating a collection of scientific journals in electronic format. It organizes and publishes on the Internet both full texts of scientific articles and also usage and impact idicators concerning a number of important journals and periodicals from a variety of scientific fields. Presently, its collection consists of 25 Brazilian journals in fields such as Health and Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Earth and Agricultural Sciences, and Physics. It can be found on the Journals & Magazines page under Brazil in the Country Resources and in Science page under Brazil section.
  

• New links in the Environment page.
  • Mexico-U.S. Border section has been created.
  • Argentina
    • Greenpeace Argentina
  • Brazil
    • Amanaka'a Amazon Network
    • Greenpeace Brasil
    • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia
    • Rainforest: Pharmacy to the World
  • International Resources
    • Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI)
    • Greenpeace International