The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) was launched in 1992 to facilitate access to online information on, from, or about Latin America, through partnerships with organizations in Latin America and globally. The collections and initiatives that comprise LANIC have been migrated to updated repository platforms to ensure continued access, improved discoverability, and long-term sustainability. Below are direct links to access these materials.
You can also view an archived version of the original LANIC webpage and related projects at https://wayback.archive-it.org/11176/20181106182048/http://lanic.utexas.edu/.
From 1992 to 2015, LANIC maintained a set of Resource Guides for Latin American Studies. Each guide contained dozens of links to relevant resources in and about Latin America. The collection included a total of 42 country guides and 85 subject guides. An archived version of the resource guides site is available for reference here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/11176/20181106182048/http://lanic.utexas.edu/.
LANIC hosted an extensive set of digital collections covering many different topics and content areas, as well as an extensive Etext collection comprising research papers written by Latin American studies scholars; theses and dissertations; etext versions of books; conference proceedings; speeches by Latin American leaders; periodical publications; and official documents. Direct links to the LANIC digital initiatives and Etext content are provided below.
You can also view archived versions of the original landing pages at the links below:
Archivo de InfoPYME: Noticias sobre la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa en América Latina
Between 1998 and 2002, LANIC published 16 issues of the newsletter InfoPYME: Noticias sobre la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa en América Latina. The newsletter was part of the SME Forum, an initiative of the Proyecto Regional de Capacitación Gerencial del FOMIN of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). An archived version of the original LANIC webpage for the InfoPYME newsletter can be found here.
The Castro Speech Database contains the full text of English translations of speeches, interviews, and press conferences by Fidel Castro, based upon the records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency responsible for monitoring broadcast and print media in countries throughout the world. The database contains over 2,000 texts covering 37 years. Original audio of the speeches is not available. This is an archived version of the database.
A dataset derived from the Castro Speech database is available in the Texas Data Repository. It includes text files of 2410 speeches, interviews, reports, among other types of documents, by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996. Access the dataset here.
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
This collection consists of over 75,000 digital images of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches from the 19th century captured from microfilm. The Library of Congress filmed the Argentine presidential messages, while the Mexican material was filmed by Preservation Resources. This is an archived version of the project site, which was funded by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project.
Estudios Sociales: Revista de Investigación Científica
Full text for retrospective issues from 2004 through 2010 of the journal Estudios Sociales, published in Mexico by the Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Current issues of Estudios Sociales are available from the Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo website: https://www.ciad.mx/estudiosociales/index.php/es.
Evaluación Cualitativa Externa del Programa Oportunidades: 2000 - 2008
First implemented in 1997, PROGRESA, now known as "Oportunidades," was the first conditional cash transfer program to target socioeconomic factors to achieve substantial improvements in the health, education, and nutrition of Mexico's rural poor. Between 2004 and 2010, it assisted 5 million households in rural Mexico, about 25% of the country's population. Agustín Escobar Latapí and Mercedes González de la Rocha led qualitative evaluations of the program from 2000 until 2008. The collection consists of the published results of these evaluations. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Fundación MAPFRE Guía de fuentes etnográficas
The "Guía preliminar de fuentes documentales etnográficas para el estudio de los pueblos indígenas de Iberoamérica" was originally published by the Fundación Histórica Tavera on LANIC in 1998. It is a detailed guide to archival sources located in the United States, Europe, and 11 Latin American countries. The focus is on archival collections that contain primary source material related to the Indigenous peoples of Latin America. The guide covers both civil and ecclesiastical collections. This is an archived version of the project site.
The Granma Archives Index is a searchable Spanish-language database of articles published from 1965 to 1992 in the official daily newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, Granma. The database provides bibliographic references for the articles, including headline, length of the article, date, and author. Full-text of the articles is not available online. An archived version of the project site is available here.
A dataset derived from the Granma Archives Index is available in the Texas Data Repository. Access the dataset here.
Hemisphere Initiatives is a collection of reports published between 1989 and 2004 by a group of scholars and activists who worked on peace, social justice, and democracy initiatives in Central America. Authors include Jack Spence, Margaret Popkin, George Vickers, Bill Stanley, Madalene O'Donnell, David Dye, and Judy Butler. An archived version of this content can be found here.
The LANIC Etext Collection is designed to facilitate access to full-text resources on Latin America, including research papers written by Latin American studies scholars; theses and dissertations; etext versions of books; conference proceedings; and other resources. An archived version of this website can be found here.
Latin American Electronic Data Archive
The Latin American Electronic Data Archive (LAEDA) seeks to collect, preserve, and provide access to data sets relevant to Latin American research, policy analysis, and teaching. The focus of the collection is on electoral data, household surveys, and data relevant to education in Latin America. An archived version of this content can be found here.
The Religion in Latin America website provides information, research, discussion, and analysis of religion in Latin America. It serves as a gateway for information on the Roman Catholic Church as a historical, social, and political actor in Latin America from colonial times to the present. It also provides information on non-Catholic religiosity in Latin America, including Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormonism, religions of the African diaspora, Indigenous religions, Indigenous Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. An archived version of this website can be found here.
Full text for retrospective issues from 1996 through 2008 of the journal Revista Región y Sociedad published by El Colegio de Sonora in Mexico. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Trends in Latin American Networking
Trends in Latin American Networking (TILAN) documents trends regarding the expansion of the Internet throughout Latin America. TILAN provided access to statistical data, information, and analysis for those interested in exploring the growth of the Latin American Internet. Most of the material published in TILAN covers the period from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s. An archived version of this website can be found here.
The Latin American Open Archives Portal was a project of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP), in collaboration with LANIC, to improve access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America. The portal provided access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials from the "deep Web." Typically, this type of content is published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers. For cases in which project partners provided PDFs, the PDFs have been migrated to Texas ScholarWorks, and can be accessed via the direct links provided below. Other partners chose to contribute to the project via links to articles hosted on their own websites, and in some cases, these links may no longer be active.
You can also view an archived version of the original LAOAP webpage: https://wayback.archive-it.org/11176/20230807182400/http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/laoap/.
Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America -- CILLA
CILLA was established by LLILAS to contribute to knowledge about the Indigenous languages of Latin America, to promote their maintenance, and to coordinate teaching programs in and about Indigenous languages. An archived version of this content can also be found here.
Center for Latin American Social Policy -- CLASPO
CLASPO works to strengthen social policy research on Latin America to promote effective community development policies. The collection includes Cuadernos de CLASPO-Argentina, working papers from the Red de Trabajo de CLASPO, and other social policy documents by affiliated scholars. An archived version of this content can also be found here.
Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo -- DESCO
DESCO is a Peruvian non-governmental development organization, with 43 years of work promoting social development and strengthening opportunities for excluded sectors of Peru. An archived version of the content can also be found here.
Centro Iberoamericano de Formación -- CIF Antigua
The Programa Iberoamericano de Formación Técnica Especializada, carried out by AECI through its three regional training centers (known as Centros de Formación en Iberoamérica, based in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; and La Antigua, Guatemala), aims to provide technical training to the staff of public instituions in the region. This initiative seeks to modernize and strengthen government administration; improve the delivery of services to citizens; and promote the inclusion and representation of marginalized groups such as women and Indigenous peoples. An archived version of this content can also be found here.
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales -- CLASCO
CLACSO is an international non-governmental institution established in 1967, which brings together more than 160 research centers and graduate programs in the social sciences from 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its mission is to promote research and teaching in the various fields of the social sciences. CLACSO seeks to critically address the comprehensive challenges facing Latin American and Caribbean societies. This is an archived version of the original CLACSO page. Please note that many of the links are no longer active.
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales -- FLACSO Chile
The Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) is an autonomous regional academic organization created in 1957 by the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean. Its objectives include promoting research, teaching, scientific dissemination, and technical cooperation in the fields of the social sciences. This is an archived version of the original FLACSO page. Please note that many of the links are no longer active.
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos -- IEP
Since its founding in 1964, the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) has been one of the country's leading social research centers. IEP's activities foster the development of spaces for dialogue among various stakeholders, within a framework of broadness and pluralism. An archived version of this content can also be found here.
Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani -- IIGG
The Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, part of the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (UBA) develops and executes multidisciplinary research projects in various areas of the social sciences. It brings together professors and researchers from the five programs that comprise the Facultad and researchers from the Consejo Nacional de Investigacions Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). An archived version of this content can also be found here.
Inter-American Development Bank -- IADB
The Inter-American Development Bank was established in 1959 to promote development in Latin America and the Caribbean, supporting poverty reduction and social progress. This is an archived version of the original IADB page. Please note that many of the links are no longer active.
Programa Cultura, Comunicación y Transformaciones Sociales -- PCCTSD
Since 1992, the Programa has studied contemporary social processes, integrating cultural, political, social, and economic aspects. It promotes diverse theoretical approaches and encourages studies that analyze the practices of social actors in significant contexts, considering their participation in transnational and global processes. This is an archived version of the original PCCTSD page. Please note that many of the links are no longer active.
Texas Papers on Latin America -- TPLA
The purpose of the Texas Papers on Latin America (TPLA) is to provide pre-publication distribution of draft papers by UT-Austin Latin Americanists and visiting scholars to the UT-Austin campus in the interest of generating useful feedback and better comprehension of the breadth of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella -- UTDT
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) is a private non-profit institution founded in 1991 by the Di Tella Foundation and the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, with support from the international philanthropic community. The mission of the University, which opened its doors on March 11, 1992, is to educate new generations of academic, social, political, and business leaders, and to enhance research and scholarship in the arts and sciences. An archived version of this content can be found here.
This collection consists of the papers of Lucas Alamán, Mexican statesman, political leader and historian. The collection includes documents pertaining to colonial administration and church history of Mexico in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and nineteenth century correspondence and documents concerning Mexican government, political, and military affairs. Archived version of the project site.
Archivo de José María Luis Mora
Correspondence, literary productions and other documents of José María Luis Mora, priest, lawyer, and Mexican statesman. Archived version of the project site.
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