What's New Archives: May 1999
May 28, 1999
- Connections added to the Anthropology
& Archaeology page:
- Belize:
- Caracol Archaeological Project: Research in the jungles of Belize,
headed by Drs. Arlen and Diane Chase from the University of Central Florida.
- Chile:
- Secrets of Easter Island, by Nova On Line: Theories and visual
representations trying to solve the mistery of how the Rapanui people
transported the multi-ton moais;
- Rongorongo: Interpretation of the Easter Island gliphs using
structural linguistics, by Sergei Rjabchikov.
- Colombia:
- Memoria y Cultura, journal of history and anthropology. Some of
the articles included are: Practicas magicas de los indigenas y los
negros en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, 1550-161; Bestialidad y
monstruosidad: Un imaginario de control sexual en la Colonia; El libro
en los tribunales de la inquisicion;
- Antropologia Forense - El arte de hacer hablar a los muertos.
- Mexico:
- Coleccion Prehispanica, Fundacion Televisa, containing photos of
archaeological works.
- Peru:
- Exploring Chavin de Huantar "through virtual reality and a
variety of photographs integrated with that experience", by John
Rick, Stanford University.
- Other Countries:
- Digging in South Brazil Megalithic Site, by Arthur Franco.
- Regional Resources:
- Mesoamerican Photo Archive, with photos on Bonampak, Monte Alban,
Teotihuacan, Chalcatzingo, and other places;
- Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University, specially
referred to the archaeology of Mexico and Central America;
- Preceramic Society in the Central Andean Highlands;
- Precolumbiana: A site from Italy, dedicated to the anthropology and
ethnography on Latin America;
- Servicio Estudiantil de Informacion en Arqueologia y Antropologia
Latinoamericana (SEIAAL).
May 26, 1999
- Many new links to Environment page:
- Chile section has been created and the following links were added:
- Centro de Investigación y Planificación del Medio Ambiente
- Chile Information Project Environmental Report
- Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente
- Comité Nacional Pro Defensa de la Fauna y Flora
- Corporación Nacional Forestal
- Instituto de Ecología Política
- Instituto de Medio Ambiente
- Sistema de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental
- Sistema Nacional de Información Ambiental de Chile
- New links to Mexico section:
- Comisión Nacional del Agua
- Ecológica
- Instituto del Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo Sustenable del Estado de
Sonora
- Instituto Nacional de la Pesca
- Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente
- Programa Nacional de Reforestación
- Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca
- New links to Mexico-U.S. Border section:
- Border Issues
- Centro de Información sobre Contaminación de Aire para la Frontera
entre EE. UU. y MÉXICO
- Comisión de Cooperación Ecológica Fronteriza
Joint Advisory Committee for Improvement of Air Quality in the Ciudad
Juárez, Chihuahua, México/El Paso,
Texas/Doña Ana County, New Mexico
- North American Development Bank
- Southwest Center for Environmental Research & Policy
- New link to Venezuela:
- Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Renovables
- New links to International Resources:
- Earth Systems
- EcoNet
- Environmental Organization Web Directory
- EnviroLink
- Pace Virtual Environmental Law Library
May 22, 1999
- More connections in the Literature page:
- Nicaragua:
- Carlos Martinez Rivas, featuring some of this Nicaraguan poet's
works, critical texts of his works, and photographs from his life.
- Peru:
- Pagina de los Dramaturgos del Peru, with full texts of Peruvian authors.
- Journals & Magazines:
- Lucero: Literary journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies,
University of California, Berkeley;
- Revista Electronica de Literatura Mexicana;
- Vertedero - Revista Venezolana de Narrativa;
- Ancora: Literary journal, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
- La Habana Elegante - Segunda Epoca: Journal on Cuban literature;
- Arcadiana - Revista de Cultura, with stories, poems and essays;
- Critica - Revista Virtual de Critica, Centro de Estudios Culturales,
Chile;
- La Boca del Caballo: Cultural journal from Cuba;
- Artefacto - Revista de arte y kool-tura de la nueva generacion de
artistas nicaraguenses;
- Literon: Vision Critica Latinoamericana
May 21, 1999
- New links in the Sports page:
- In the Argentina area:
- AFA: Asociacion de Futbol Argentino
- Ajedrez Argentino
- Al Toque: Futbol Latino
- APAT: Turismo Nacional
- Asociacion Argentina de Tenis
- Asociacion De Clubes de Basquetbol de Argentina
- Automovilismo Argentino: Historia
- Federacion Argentina de Volley-Ball
- Futbol Argentino
- Gimnasia Argentina
-
Tenis Argentino
- In the new El Salvador area:
- Poligono: Football League as Community Development
- Sports News from Channel 6: Breves del Deporte
- In the new Guatemala area:
- Social and Sports Soccer Club 'Los Rojos'
- Soccer in Guatemala
- Three Routes Guatemala Scuba Diving
- Xelaju M.C.: Sports Club
- In the new Honduras area:
- Club Deportivo Olimpia
- Comite Olimpico de Honduras
- Federacion Nacional Autonoma de Futbol de Honduras
- Honduras Women's Soccer National Team
- Secretaria de Cultura, Artes y Deportes
- In the Peru section:
- Club Universitario de Deportes
- In the Regional Resources area:
- CONCACAF: The Soul of CONCACAF
- In the International Resources area:
- Internet Soccer Fans Association
- New links in the Development page:
- In the Latin American Resources area:
- Healing the Soil and the People
- Sustainable Development Department of the Inter-American Development Bank
- LADB: News and Education in La tin America
- In the Bolivia area:
- Research and Development in the Moxos Valley
- In the Nicaragua section:
- Red de Desarrollo Sostenible de Nicaragua
- In the new Mexico area:
- Borderlands Archives
- Centro de Investigaciones Economicas y Politicas de Accion
Comunitaria: CIEPAC. Center for the Research of Economic and Political
Community Action
- Direccion General de Programas Regionales
- Secretaria de Desarrollo Social
- In the International Resources area:
- Hemispheric Congress on Disaster Reduction and Sustainable Development
- International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives: ICLEI
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- UN-Economic and Social Development Site
- United Nations Environment Programme
- New links to both Health and Peru page:
- Asociación Benéfica PRISMA in Peru section.
- Educanet-Salud Peru section.
- New link to Peru page:
- Universidad Científica del Sur has been added to Academic Research
Resources.
- New links to Regional Resources in Science page:
- Comisión Panamericana de Normas Técnicas
- Interamerican Accreditation Cooperation
- Sistema Interamericano de Metrologia
May 20, 1999
- New links added to the Music page:
- In the Latin American Resources section:
- ATAME: Music and Cords for Music in Spanish
- In the Bolivia section:
- Music of Bolivia LLAJTA Musica: Requires Real Player-G2
- In the Brazil area:
- Assad, Sergio and Odair: The Unofficial Assad Home page
- Luciana Souza Page
- Mangotree Music Productions
- The Music Popular Brasileira Zone
- Viva Music: On Line Musica Magazine
- In the Mexico area:
- Alberto Escobar: Mexican Trovador
- Alejandro Filio: Nueva Trova Mexicana
- Anammelek: Mexican Black Metal, Doom, Dark and Death Metal
- Banda El Recodo: Music from Sinaloa
- Botellita de Jerez: Rock
- Caifanes: Mexican Rock
- Caifanes y Jaguares: Rock
- Cri-Cri el Grillito Cantor, Francisco Gabilondo Soler: Children's music
-
El Santuario del Jaguar: Rock
- Francisco Barrios "El Mastuerzo": Trova-Rock
- Jorge Negrete, 'El Charro Cantor': Mariachi Star
- Jose Alfredo Jimenez: Ranchero Singer and Composer
- KZIIII Rock from Culiacan, Sinaloa
- Mexicanto: Nueva Trova Mexicana
- Musica Purhepecha: Universidad Michoacana
- Poseur: Mexican Underground Metal
- Symphonic Music in Mexico City
- El TRI: Page dedicated to Alex Lora
- El Tri: Non-official Page
- In the Peru section:
- Alex Acuna: Percussionist
- Chabuca Granda: La Flor de la Canela
- Julie Freundt: Popular Song
- Musica Criolla: Creole
- Patricia Saravia: Singer
- Peru: Magic Land
- In the Other Countries area:
- Texas Music Office: Links to Tex-Mex Music
- In the International Resources area:
- GEMM: Seller Mara
- Music Resources on Internet
May 18, 1999
- New links added to the Brazil page:
- In the Academic Research Resources section:
- Direitos e Desejos Humanos, A Revolucao Farroupilha
- In the Economy section:
- Brazil-U.S. Business Council
- InterNet: Bancos
- In the Travel & Tourism section:
- New links added to the Journalism
page:
- In the Cuba area:
- Cuba: Information, biographies, social data
- Cuba Internet Resources
- Radio and TV Marti
- In the Censorship section:
- Freedom Forum: Non-profit organization for media
- Global News Perspective@EscapeArtist
- International Press
Institute: Austria-based media association
- In the Investigative Tools area, under the heading Regional
Resources, you will find the following:
- Andes Commission of Jurisprudence: South American Resource
- Argentinian National Institute of Statistics and Census Information
- La Guia: Resource compiled by Molly Molloy at NMSU
- Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences
- Latin American Section of the CINDOC
- Political Database of the Americas: Georgetown U.
- Programa Latinoamericano de Poblacion: UNAM
- Red Europea de Informacion y Documentacion sobre America Latina
- Sala de Prensa: non-profit journalistic Iberoamerican site
- In the Investigative Tools area, under the heading General
Resources, you will find the following:
- Address Directory - Politicians of the World
- COLNODO: Consulta: 20 specialized databases
- Investigators Guide to Sources of Information: US
May 17, 1999
- New links added to the Human Rights
page:
- In the Brazil area:
- National Council of Criminal and Penitentiary Policy
- Brazil's National Prison Law
- In the Haiti area:
- International Civilian Mission in Haiti
- In the Other Countries section:
- Fillastre, Bizouarn v. Bolivia: University of Minnesota
- In the International Resources area:
- Human Rights Watch World Report 1999
- Inter-American Human Rights Database
- New links added to the Art page:
- In the Chile area:
- El Mundo Diferente de Katiuska: Chilean Photography
- In the Cuba section:
- Rick Blanco. Cuban-American Painter
- In the Haiti section:
- The Elecric Art Gallery - Haitian Art
- In the International Resources section:
- Centrodearte: Spanish and Latinoamerican Art
- Escala: Art Magazine
- Read about results from the weekend referendum in Guatemala on
Indigenous rights and curbs on the authority of the military in the LANIC Newsroom. Included are
links to breaking news stories with results from the voting, and to
Guatemalan daily newspapers on the Web.
May 14, 1999
- Connections added to the
Literature page:
- Argentina:
Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires.
- Brazil:
Poesia Brasileira: Poems and essays by Felipe Fortuna.
- Cuba:
Paginas cubanas, with Ana Rosa Nuñez' poems.
- Mexico:
- Poesia de Jose Juan Tablada;
- Luis G. Urbina: Poems and biographical information.
- Venezuela:
Prosoem@: children's literature page.
- Journals & Magazines:
- La Palabra Viva, journal of Colombian poetry;
- ABRApalabra, literary journal (Bolivia);
- Poesia.com, journal of poetry;
- Laberinto: Electronic journal of early modern hispanic literature
and culture. Site hosted by the University of Texas, San Antonio;
- Xacuanxochitl, literary journal, including poems of Gioconda Belli
(Nicaragua) and stories of Poly Bird (Argentina);
- Susurros, Colombian literary journal, with poetry, short stories and
essays.
May 10, 1999
- New links to Ecuador page:
- In the Economy section:
- Corporación Financiera Nacional
- Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economía Política
- Instituto Ecuatoriano de Mercado de Capitales
- In the Government section:
- Superintendencia de Bancos
May 7, 1999
- In the LANIC Joint Projects, the project Cuba in
Transition: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Association for the
Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) has been updated with Volume 8 of the papers and proceedings
from
the 1998 ASCE conference.
- Additions in the Economy page:
- In the Academic Research Resources section:
- Peru:
Instituto de Economia de Libre Mercado
- Uruguay:
Instituto de Economia (IECON), Universidad de la Republica.
- In the Macroeconomic Information & Analysis section:
- Argentina:
Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario.
- Costa Rica:
Encuentro Economico, by Juan Manuel Villasuso, with articles and links.
- Mexico:
Informacion Financiera, from SPIN-Internet.
- Uruguay:
Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo.
- Peru:
Peru Minero.
- Regional Resources:
- Latin Trade;
- Policy Papers on Latin America, by Guillermo Calvo, Center for
International Economics, University of Maryland: Argentina's
Dollarization Project, Chilean Stabilization Policy, Monetary and
Exchange Rate Policy for Mexico, etc.
- In the News & Magazines section:
Broad Street Journal, Caribbean Business News Site.
May 5, 1999
- Check out our new Site Map. This
navigational aid can be reached via a link in the footer of the LANIC
Home Page, or from the Info button, which is in the header of all
LANIC pages.
- New links to Peru page:
- Business & Finance
- Cámara de Comercio de Lima
- Comisión Nacional Supervisora de Empresas y Valores, CONASEV
- Government
- Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y Protección de la
Propiedad Intelectual, INDECOPI
- Travel & Tourism
- Cámara Nacional de Turismo, CONATUR
May 3, 1999
- Read about Sunday's elections in Panama in the LANIC Newroom. Included are
individual news stories on the outcome, plus links to candidate sites, as
well as Panamanian newspapers, and special election coverage sites.
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