What's New Archives: Spring 2005
April 26, 2005
There is a new page in the Electoral Observatory: Suriname, where there elections
will be held in May. With a former dictator on the ballot, it should be
interesting.
April 14, 2005
- We have new resources for you on the following
pages!
- Cayman Islands:
- Economy:
- Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce
- Cayman Islands Financial Services Association
- Chile:
- Government: Ministerio Público
- News: La Discusión
- Travel & Tourism: Siempre Arica
- Dominica:
- Travel & Tourism: Official Tourism Website of Dominica
- Dominican Republic:
- News & Media: El Nuevo Diario
- Organizations: Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo
- Government:
- Argentina: Ministerio Público Fiscal
- Bolivia: Ministerio Público de Bolivia
- Chile:
- Defensoría Penal Pública
- Ministerio Público
- Colombia: Fiscalía General de la Nación
- Costa Rica: Procuraduría General de la República
- Ecuador: Ministerio Público del Ecuador
- Peru: Ministerio Público - Fiscalía de la
Nación
- Venezuela: Ministerio Público
- Haiti:
- Arts & Humanities: Haitian Proverbs
- News: Haiti Get Involved
- Human Rights:
- Chile: Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión
Política y Tortura
- Puerto Rico:
- Portals, Directories, & Search Sites: Isla Querida
March 30, 2005
- There are two new pages in the Electoral
Observatory: Dominica and the Cayman Islands. We expect
these pages
to grow, so check back often!
- On the Digital Divide, Digital
Inclusion,
& Universal Service page, under Regional Resources, you
can find
Bridging the Digital Divide in Caribbean Group Decision-Making
- And, of course, there are more links on the Maps
page:
- Country Resources, under Brazil:
- Libreria Editora
- Sociedade Brasileira de Cartografia, Geodésia, Fotogrametria e
Sensoriamento Remoto
- International Resources, under Portals, Directories, &
Search
Sites: FreeGIS Project
March 15, 2005
We realize that LANIC's Maps page is one of
our more
exciting pages, and it is quite enjoyable to update. Furthermore, there
are many
pertinent areas that we have barely explored. Nevertheless, it is
important to try to
keep all of LANIC up-to-date. In that spirit, the individual
responsible for the
Maps page, which you really should visit,
wishes to bring
it to your attention that she has been working on other pages as well.
Check out the
following additions to other pages, but check back for more new maps in
the future:
- For Brazil:
- On the Digital Divide, Digital
Inclusion &
Universal Service page, under Country Resources,
Brazil: Gemas da Terra
- On the Libraries & Archives
page, under
Brazil: Domínio Público
- On the Scholarships, Grants, &
Loans page:
- Country Resources:
- Argentina: Educ.ar
- Brazil: Bom Aluno
- Chile: Ayudas Estudantiles para la Educación Superior
- Costa Rica: Dirección de Cooperación Internacional
- Ecuador: Fundación para la Ciencia y la Tecnología
- Guatemala: Secretaría de Planificación y
Programación
de la Presidencia
- Honduras: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores
- Mexico: Fundación Interuniversitaria de Comercio Exterior
- Uruguay: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura
- Venezuela: Asociación Venezolano Americana de Amistad
- International Resources:
- American Association of University Women
- CollegeNET
- International Scholarships
- International Student Exchange and Study Abroad Resource Center
- But there are a few new links on the Maps page
to report:
- The Americas: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e
Historia
- Argentina:
March 11, 2005
- There are more new links on LANIC's Maps page!
Take a look:
- Argentina:
- Cartografía de las Areas Protegidas
- Instituto Geográfico Militar
- Aruba: Geography/Maps of Aruba: Virtual Reality Tour
- The Bahamas: Islands of the Bahamas
- Barbados:
- General Information from the Ministry of Tourism
- Points & Places of Interest
- Belize:
- Geographical Research in Belize
- Location & Maps
- Brazil: Servidor de Mapas, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e
Estatística
- Cayman Islands: Maps from the Cayman Islands government
- Colombia: Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi
- El Salvador: Map from the Ministry of Tourism
- Guadeloupe: A Good Look at the Island Marie-Galante
- Martinique: Cartes, Comité du Tourisme de la Martinique
- Panama:
- Gerencia de Hidrometeorología
- Mapas, Instituto Panam&entilde;o de Turismo
- Peru: Instituto Geográfico Nacional
- St. Kitts and Nevis: Island Map, St. Kitts Tourism Authority
- St. Lucia: Interactive Tour
- A new section, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, has been
added to this page.
- Uruguay: Mapas y Rutas del Uruguay
March 10, 2005
- Now you can follow the latest twists and turns of the Bolivian
Government Crisis through the "LANIC
Newsroom"
- There are changes to LANIC's Maps page
as well:
- A new section has been added under Regional Resources:
Territorial
Disputes.
Also under Regional Resources, under
Hispanic/Latino, you can now
find:
- Demographic Maps: Hispanic Population
- Maps of the Foreign Born in the United States
- Under Country Resources:
- Brazil: Primeira Comissões Brasileiras Demarcadoras de
Limites
- Venezuela: Instituto Geográfico de Venezuela
Simón Bolívar
- A new section has been added under International Resources:
Portals, Directories,
& Search Sites.
Under General Resources, you can find the following new links:
- Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles
- Atlas of the Biosphere
- British Cartographic Society
- Cornell's Digital Earth
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- International Association of Geodesy
March 01, 2005
- Check out new resources added to the Women & Gender Studies page!
- Regional Resources:
- 10° Encuentro Feminista Latinoamericano y del Caribe
- Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action
- CIPAC - Centro de Investigaci.n y Promoci.n para Am.rica Central de
Derechos Humanos para personas gay, l.sbicas, bisexuales y transg.nero
- Ciudadanía Sexual
- De Nosotras
- Género y Comericio
- Red Feminista Latinoamericana y del Caribe contra la Violencia
Doméstica y Sexual
- Argentina:
- Agenda de las Mujeres
- Red Mujer y Hábitat
- Brazil:
- Centro Feminista 8 de Março
- Centro Latino-Americano em Sexualidades e Direitos Humanos
- Colectivo Feminista Sexualidade e Saúde
- Geledés
- Grupo Transas do Corpo
- Marcha Mundial das Mulheres
- Chile:
- Foro Salud y Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos
- MOVILH
- Mujeres Hoy
- Costa Rica:
- CEFEMINA
- Pensamiento Jurídico Feminista
- Ecuador:
- Guatemala:
- APROFAM - Asociación Pro-Bienestar de la Familia de Guatemala
- Mexico:
- Centro de Investigaci.n y Atenci.n a la Mujer
- Fundación para la Equidad
- Les Voz
- Milenio Feminista
- Modemmujer
- Mujeres y Punto
- Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer
- Peru:
- Uruguay:
- Chicana/Hispanic/Latina Issues:
- Chicana Research Centers and Organizations
- Chicana Studies Web Page
- International Resources:
- Asociación de Hombres por la Igualdad de Género
- Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality - European Parliament
- Guía de Género en Internet
- Huelga Mundial de Mujeres
- International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
- Marcha Mundial de las Mujeres
- Mujeres y Ciudades
- Women's Rights are Human Rights
February 16, 2005
The Wireless Internet Institute is holding a conference entitled "The
Wireless Internet Opportunity for
Underserved Communities in Latin America: A Brazilian Perspective" this
month in Brazil. Check out the link on
LANIC's Digital Divide, Digital
Inclusion, & Universal Service page!
February 11, 2005
- New resources added to the following pages!
- Indigenous Peoples:
- Regional Resources:
- Instituto Indigenista Interamericano
- Colombia:
- Organización Gonawindua Tayrona
- Labor:
- Argentina:
- Asociación Argentina de Docentes de Español
- Martinique:
- Environment:
- Travel & Tourism:
- Martinique fleurs faune vegetation
- Zananas Martinique
- Political Science:
- Regional Resources:
- INEP- Internet para el profesional de la política
- Puerto Rico:
- Travel & Tourism:
- Vieques Travel Guide
- What to do in Puerto Rico
- Social Work:
- Mexico:
- Escuela Superior de Trabajo Social Culiacán
- International Resources:
- World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers
- Uruguay:
- Arts & Humanities:
- Radio & Television:
February 10, 2005
- More links were recently added to LANIC's Maps page:
- The Americas:
- Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio
- Carte d'Amerique dress.e pour l'usage du Roy
- Cartes et plans de l'Amerique
- La parte orientale dell'antico e nuovo Messico con la Florida e la
Bassa Luigiana dellineata sulle ultime
osservazioni
- Honduras: Draught of the Bay of Honduras and the Musqueto Shoar
- Mexico:
- Mapa Digital de México
- The Oztoticpac lands map
- Von den newen Inseln : der Statt Themistitan in den newen Inseln
gelegen/figurierung
- Nicaragua: Map of the Mosquito Shore, Nicaragua, Central America
- Suriname: Extrait de la carte hollandise representant la
colonie de Surinam
- U.S. Virgin Islands: Tilforladelig kort over eylandet St.
Croix . . .
- Venezuela: Venezuela, cum parte Auftrali Novae Andalausiae
February 2, 2005
- A list of elections coming up in 2005 has been added to the Electoral
Observatory. If you know of any others that are expected to take
place in Latin America, please let us
know! Also, under General Resources, we have added a link to an
election guide that makes available a
calendar of elections to take place throughout the world.
- The Maps page now has a Bermuda
section and a Grenada section. It also
has many new links!
These include:
- The Americas:
- Antiquarian Maps of the Americas
- Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors: North America
- Strategic map of our war with Spain, 1898
- Mexico, Central America, & the Caribbean:
- Central America and the Caribbean, a recent reference map
- Natural Hazards in Central America
- SERVIR, Mesoamerican Monitoring and Visualization System
- South America:
- Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors
- South America Weekly Precipitation Maps
- Argentina: Plan topografica del Valle de Centa, 1794
- Chile: Plano de la Bahía de Concepción de Chile
situada la ciudad antigua . . .
- Costa Rica: Carte des provinces de Nicaragua et Costa Rica
- Dominica: A Plan of the Rosalij Compy. Estates . . .
- Dominican Republic: Plan de projet pour l'etablissement de la
ville du Port Napol.on dans l'Isle
Saint Domingue sur la presqu'isle et Baye de Samana, as well as maps of
Santo Domingo from the Library of Congress
- Ecuador: Carta de la Provincia de Quito y de sus adjacentes
- Guatemala: Map of Guatemala : reduced from the survey in the
archives of that country, 1826
- Mexico: Mexico Weekly Precipitation Maps
- Nicaragua: Carte des provinces de Nicaragua et Costa Rica
- International Resources:
- Geospatial Resources
- Glossary of Cartographic Terms
- Library of Congress Hispanic and Portuguese Collections: An
Illustrated Guide and The Luso-Hispanic World
in Maps, both of which include substantial Iberian resources
- Web Fire Mapper
January 27, 2005
- Check out new resources added to the following pages!
- Argentina:
- Academic Research Resources:
- Portal Educativo de la Provincia de Mendoza
- Universidad Nacional de San Luis
- Literature:
- News & Newspapers:
- News & Newspapers:
- Organizations:
- Asociación Argentina de Docentes de Español
- Portals, Directories & Search Sites:
- Bahamas:
- Portals, Directories & Search Sites:
- Chile:
- Academic Research Resources:
- International Training Agency
- Arts & Culture:
- Coreóagrafos de Chile
- Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil de Chile
- Magazines:
- News:
- Dominica:
- Academic Research Resources:
- Lennox Honychurch's Dominica
- Economy:
- Dominica Bureau of Standards
- Travel & Tourism:
- Dominican Republic:
- News & Media:
- Clave Digital
- Radio Selecta
- RD Noticias
- Travel & Tourism:
- French Guiana:
- Academic Research Resources:
- Académie de la Guyane
- Guyane-éducation.org
- Government:
- Regional Resources:
- INEP- Internet para el profesional de la política
- Bolivia:
- Guyana:
- Haiti:
- Organizations:
- Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
- Shapel
- The Haiti Connection
- History:
- Regional Resources:
- INEP- Internet para el profesional de la política
- Argentina:
- Chile:
- Exilio Chileno
- Historia de la Educación en Chile (siglos XIX y XX)
- Human Rights:
- Chile:
- CONFRAPECO: Confraternidad de Familiares y Amigos de Presos Comunes
- Memoria Colectiva
January 26, 2005
Check out the following new links:
- On the Paraguay page:
- Under Business & Economy: ParaguayGlobal
- Under Education: LearnLink:Paraguay
- Under Environment & Sustainable Development:
- Fundación para el Desarrollo Sustentable del Chaco Sud Americano
- The Paraguay listings from the Directory of Development Organizations
- Under Government, Politics, & Law:
- Paraguay Index from International Constitutional Law
- Revista Jurídica
- Transparencia Paraguay
- Under Indigenous Peoples:
- IDIPAR
- Leyendas Guaraníes
- Under Portals, Directories, & Search Sites: Yatopa
- On the Internet & Computing
Tools page:
- Under Regional & Iberian Resources:
- Under Portals, Directories, Search Sites, & Weblogs: Tejedores
del Web
- Under Web Design, Development, & Publishing:
- Acentuação e Caracteres Especiais
- Caracteres Especiales
- Under International Resources, Web Design, Development,
& Publishing:
- Dynamic HTML Central
- A List Apart
- Web Design References
- On the Maps page:
- Regional Maps:
- Under The Americas:
- America noviter delineata
- Central America, the West Indies South America and portions of the
United States and Mexico
- Under Mexico, Central America, & the Caribbean:
- Caribbean Area
- Central America
- Descripcion de la costa de Tierra Firme desde el Rio de la Empalizada
hasta Cavo de Clara. Por las latitudes y
longitudes de Dn. Bartolome de Rosa. Echo por Balentin Cierto primer
Piloto de la Real Armada, a.o de 1757
- New Spain
- Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala
- Under South America
- Carta reducida del Estrecho de Magallanes y parte de la costa del
Fuego levantado en el a.o de 1785
- A new map of South America, shewing it's general divisions, chief
cities & towns, rivers, mountains &c.
- Plano corografico de los reconocimientos pertenecientes a la
demarcacion del Art. 8o. del Trato. Preliminiar de
Limites de 11 de octe. de 1777 practicados por las segundas subdivisiones
espa.ola y portuguesa en orden a desatar
los dudas suscitadas entre sus respectivos comisarios
- Under Country Resources:
- Under The Bahamas: [Map of a part of the island of Cuba and of
the Bahamas]
- Under Paraguay: Typus geographicus, Chili a Paraguay Feti
Magellanici &c.
January 24, 2005
Interested in learning Spanish or another language in Latin America?
Visit our Language Programs page where
you
can consult the following new additions:
Argentina:
- Academia Buenos Aires
- Centro de Estudios de Lengua Espa.ol C.rdoba CELEC
- GICArg - Grupo de Intercambio Cultural Spanish immersion
programs and internships in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, C.rdoba and Mendoza
- Lucem Institute Buenos Aires
- V.a Buenos Aires
Costa Rica:
- Academia Tica Coronado
- Amistad Institute Heredia
- El Paraiso Spanish Language School Manuel Antonio . Quepos
- ILISA San Jose
- Personalized Spanish Customized Spanish immersion courses
- Spanish and Culture International Center CIEC, Heredia
Ecuador:
- Nuevo Horizonte - Latins Spanish Academy Quito
- Rumi.ahui Spanish School Quito
Mexico:
- Experiencia Spanish Language Immersion Cuernavaca
Peru:
- Akralingua Spanish School Cusco
- United Travellers Spanish Language School
International Resources:
- Institute for Spanish Language Studies ISLS
Other Countries:
- Idiomas en Paraguay - IDIPAR Spanish and Guarani,
Asunci.n, Paraguay
January 11, 2005
Check out the new links on our Cuba page:
- Academic Research Resources: Center for Cuban Business Studies Ohio
Northern University
- Arts & Humanities: Arte de Cuba - Cuban Art
- News: Puente Informativo Cuba-Miami
- News: El Veraz
- Radio & TV: Radio Cadena Agramonte
- Travel & Tourism: Criand Cuba Agencia de Viajes
- Travel & Tourism: Cuba-Pictures.com Cuba travel photos
- Travel & Tourism: Island Travel & Tours Information on legal travel
to
Cuba
January 7, 2005
New links are coming to a South American page near you.
Bolivia:
- Arts & Culture: Arturo von Vocano - Periodista, escritor, fot.grafo y
traductor
- Education: Eduagro - Educaci.n Agropecuaria a Distancia
Peru:
- General: Expatperu - News, community and resources for expatriates
living in Peru
- Government: Direcci.n General de Migraciones y Naturalizaci.n DIGEMIN
Venezuela:
- Arts & Culture: Viejas Fotos Actuales
- Magazines: Descifrado
January 4, 2005
Recent additions to the Sports page include:
- Argentina: Esto es Boca.com.ar
- Colombia: Bicibogota - Comunidad de Ciclistas Bogotanos
- Ecuador: Golecuador - Todo sobre el Fútbol Ecuatoriano
- Nicaragua: Dennis Martinez Foundation
- Regional Resources: Para el Fútbol - El Fútbol en
Números
- Regional Resources: Codigomotor
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