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What's New Right Now

March 15, 1996

What's New in World Wide Web

What's New in Latin American Studies

What's New in UT-LANIC:

• A new Trinidad & Tobago page has been added to the Country Directory.
• A link to Listas Hispanoamericanas de Bibliotecología has been added to our Libraries page.

• The Cinema page has been updated with a link to Mystery of the Maya - The Film.

• The Commission for Environmental Cooperation can now be found on UT-LANIC's Environment page.
• CEPAL/ECLAC, the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, has been added to our Interdisciplinary Information page. CEPAL can also be reached via the Economics page.
• The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC, can nowbe reached from our Radio & TV page.
• Recent additions to the Jamaica page:
  Economy: Basic Socio-Economic Data from the Inter American Development Bank and the Jamaica Stock Exchange
  General: Ethnologue Database and Introduction to Jamaica, a good directory assembled by Arlene Laing
  Network & Information Services:InfoChannel; Jamaica Online; and Network Startup Resource Center
• ARCAS is dedicated to the conservation of wildlife in northern Guatemala.

• The Logos Group Dictionary has been added to our Reference and Languages pages.
• The Haiti page has been updated with the following links:
  Business & Economy: Basic Socio-Economic Data from the Inter-American Development Bank
  General: Network Startup Resource Center - Haiti
  Government: Mission des Naciones-Unies en Haiti
  News & Periodicals: Croissance Economique; Dans l'actualite; and This Week in Haiti
  Other Resources: Canadian Contingent to the U.N. in Haiti; Haiti Archives; Haiti Center; and Haiti Online

• Recent additions to the Dominican Republic page:
  Economy: Basic Socio-Economic Data from the Inter-American Development Bank
  General: Republica Dominicana Maps from Caribbean-On-Line
  Network and Information Services:Internet in the Dominican Republic by J. Vasquez; Network Startup Resource Center
  News & Periodicals: Mercado Magazine; news:soc.culture.dominican-rep; Resumen Diario
  WWW Servers: TRICOM

• The Peru page has been updated with a direct link to the server of the Congreso de la Republica. Look toward the bottom of the page under "Resources in Peru by Type of Service."

• A link to CUIB (Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Bibliotecologicas) has been added to our Libraries page, under the Mexico heading.
• The FSLN has a new web site listed in the Elections section of our Nicaragua page.
• A link to Foreign Languages for Travelers has been added to our Languages page.

• New links on the Cuba page:
  Art: Cuba Museum Guide
  Economy: Draft of a Cuban Law on Foreign Investment
  Network & Information Services: Network Startup Resource Center - Cuba
  News & Periodicals: Noticias Sobre Cuba; TIPS Cuban Magazine
  Other Resources: Cuba History Archives; Cuba Internet Resources
  WWW Servers: CubaWeb

• Several new sites have been added to the Barbados page. Though still small relative to our other country pages, we expect the Barbados page to enjoy steady growth in the future.

• The Uruguay home page has seen some growth recently:
  General:
  Republica Oriental del Uruguay
  Government:
  Embassy of Uruguay-Washington, D.C.
  Embassy of Uruguay-Embassies Ottawa
  News & Newsgroups:
  Radio El Espectador-810 AM
  WWW Servers:
  Colegio Jose Pedro Varela
  Instituto Nacional de Investigacin Agropecuaria
  Gopher Servers:
  Red Academica Uruguaya
  Red Educativa Uruguaya

• Several new links have been added to the Ecuador home page:
  Academic Research Resources:
  Centro de Estudios Interamericanos
  Study Abroad in Cuenca-Kentucky Institute for International Studies
  Summer Spanish Program in the Andes-Augustana College
  Government:
  Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Y Censos (INEC)
  News & Newsgroups
  Revista El Idolo(Barcelona S.C.)
  WWW Servers:
  Universidad San Francisco de Quito
  Gopher Servers:
  Ecuanet

• The Chile page has been newly endowed with several more links to
  WWW servers:
  Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO)
  European Southern Observatory (ESO) La Silla
  Universidad del Bio-Bio
  Universidad Catolica del Norte
  Universidad de la Frontera
  Universidad de Tarapaca
  Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
  UVA Multimedia WWW

• The Cinema page has been updated with a link to UVA Cine in Santiago, Chile. This site contains a comprehensive cartelera cinematografica and promises real time videos.

• The following links have been recently added to our Argentina page:
  
  General:
  Directorio Nacional Argentino
  News & Newsgroups:
  Apertura-revista de negocios
  Argentina Web TV
  Clarin
  La Maga-noticias de cultura
  LU6 Radio Atlantica
  Periodismo x Periodistas
  Science & Technology:
  Agroquimicos de Argentina
  Earthwatch-Scientific Expeditions in Argentina
  Union Matematica Argentina
  
  
• The following links have been recently added to our Chile page:
  
  Academic Research Resources:
  Chile-University of California Education Abroad Program
  Chile Schools-Worldwide Classroom-LIP
  Economy:
  Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago
  Camara Nacional de Comercio de Chile
  Chilean-American Chamber of Commerce
  Chile Electronic Yellow Pages
  General:
  Indice de Nexus-Webs en Chile (w/ search engine)
  News:
  Teletrece canal de la television chilena
  Science & Technology:
  Chile-Network Startup Resource Center
  Travel & Tourism:
  Chile City.Net
  Destination Chile Lonely Planet

• The following links have been recently added to our Argentina page:
  
  Arts & Humanities:
  The Jorges Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation
  Literatura Argentina Contemporanea
  Economy:
  Texas Argentine Chamber of Commerce
  General:
  Argentina!--Middlebury College
  Chaco-Province of Chaco--Office of Planning
  Government:
  Departamento de Informacion Legislativa
  Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
  News & Newsgroups:
  Argentine Human Rights Information
  E-mail and Connectivity-Argentina FAQ
  Travel and Tourism:
  Lonely Planet Destination Argentina
  WWW Servers:
  Biblioteca Central de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
  Universidad Nacional del Litoral
  
  
• Six more papers have been added to the LASA 95 Papers Pilot Project Page . Watch for new additions over the next few days.

• Several new gateways were added to the Brazil page. The Gateway to Brazilian Education on the Web lists both K-12 and university sites on the Internet. Let us know about your institution by clicking on the "ADD" button in the header. Embratel's WWW Index and Yaih? Diretorio de Servicios da Internet Brasileira can now be found on our Brazil page.
• Ambito Financiero, an on-line financial journal from Argentina, can now be accessed through the Periodicals section on the Business & Finance page. Back issues to December 1995 availible.
• Follow the link to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the Agriculture page. Look for the sub-heading International Organizations.

• The first server in El Salvador is up.
• Resumen de Noticias de Honduras has been added to our Honduras page.
• Two new Web servers are up and running in Guatemala: the INCAP and the Universidad del Valle.
• The Military page now includes a link to Chile's Ministerio de Defensa Nacional.
• A new website for the Ministerio de Agricultura in Chile replaces the outdated gopher site. Follow the link on the Agriculture page

• The Rainforest Action Network (RAN), an important site for environmental political activism has been added to our Environment page. RAN contains superb links to global campaigns to preserve rainforests worldwide, including rainforests in Brazil, Venezuela and Costa Rica.
• Visit LANIC's two new pages in the Subject Directory: the Astronomy page includes links to observatories and related sites in Latin America, while Radio-TV lists the sites for broadcast stations throughout the region, including K-INT in Mexico which offers news files in audio and text format.
• Peru page update: Check out the new link to the Ministerio Publico - Fiscalia de la Nacion. Here you will find detailed information on various aspects of the Peruvian judicial system.

• A link to Peliculas Peruanas, one of the few online sources of information on Peruvian film, can now be found on both the Cinema page and the Peru page.

• The Economy page has been further updated with a link to the Brazilian Economic Issues page housed at the Brazilian Embassy in London. Look under the country heading Brazil.

• Latin America's Regional Integration Process, a Background Report prepared by Britain's Foreign & Commonwealth Office, has been linked from the Trade section of the Economy page. The report contains information on various trade pacts and regional integration agreements in Latin America.

• A link to Documentary Educational Resources has been added to the Cinema page. Here you will find information on various documentaries featuring Latin American subject matter.
• Argentina's Ministerio de Defensa has a website. Follow the link on the Military page.

• The Military page has been updated with links to the Brazilian Embassy in London. The Embassy has assembled informative profiles of the Brazilian Air Force, Army and Navy.

• Two new sites have been added to our Colombia page: the "El Tiempo" daily newspaper, and the national statistics agency, DANE.
• "Hondutel", the telephone company from Honduras, has a new website.
• Another set of economic indicators, compiled by the Mexican Consulate in New York, has been added to our Economics page. Look for the link under Country Resources, Mexico.
• A link to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Big Emerging Markets web site has been added to our Business and Finance page. Here you will find country reports on Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

• The "Centro de Estudios de Guatemala" has been added to our Guatemala page.

• Several new sites for health are open in Brazil. They've been added to the Brazil page; Programa de Quimica Fina para o Combate `a Tuberculose, Leishmaniasis Network, Organizacao Pan-Americana da Saude, Fiocruz (Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz), Instituto de Medicina Social e de Criminologia de Sao Paulo) - InfoDrogas, and HC - Hospital das Clinicas.
• The Border Trade Institute, at Texas A & M International University, has been added to our NAFTA Resources page.

• "Our Island in the Sun" is now linked from our Barbados page.

• The Santiago Stock Exchange now has a web site. The old link on the Business & Finance page, which pointed to the Exhange's gopher, has been redirected to the new web site.

• A link to Cinema Brazil, hosted by the IBASE server, has been added to the Cinema page.
• Detailed information on Venezuela's economy provided by the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. can now be accessed from the Economy page. Look for the link to Economic Aspects of Venezuela under Country Resources. Two newsgroups have also been added to the Economy page. You can find the links under the heading Periodicals and News Sources.
• The international section of the Business & Finance page has been updated with a link to London's Financial Times.

• LASPAU, Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas, based at Harvard, has been added to our Latin American Studies Institutions page.
• Costa Rica Netguide's page on Investment Opportunities can be accessed via a new link on the Business & Finance page.
• The Economy page now has a link to Colombia's Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica, DANE.
• Also new on the Economy page is a link to the Indice de Precos ao Consumidor na Cidade do Recife provided by the Fundacao Joaquim Nabuco.
• Estadisticas Agropecuarias y Pesqueras collected by Argentina's Ministerio de Economia can be found on the Agriculture page.

• Prensa Libre is the first Guatemalan daily newspaper to appear on the Web

• Two sites have been added to our Colombia page: the Universidad Antonio Narino, and the Diario Occidente.
• You can now read the journal Boletin published by the Asociacion de Economistas Independientes de Cuba. Follow the link on the Economy page.

• Diario Tiempo is the first publication from Honduras to appear on the Web.
• We have just added a link to the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias in Mexico. The site is still under construction but has some useful information. Check it out on the Agriculture page.
• The new Web version of the Central America Update is now accessible through our News page.
• A link to the WorldTrade Executive, Inc. web site has been added to the Business & Finance page as well as the Economy page.

• You can now access the Jamaica Stock Exchange on the Business & Finance page.
• Three new WWW search services have been added to our Searchable Indexes page:Inktomi, excite Netsearch, and the MetaCrawler.
• A link to current research projects of the Center for Latin American Capital Markets Research can now be found on the Business & Finance page.
• Access the Camara de Comercio in Guayaquil, Ecuador through a new link on the Business & Finance page.
• The Educational Leadership Network (ELNET) has been added to our Mexico page.
• New links to Spanish language schools and educational travel have been added to the Guatemala page.

• The Cinema page has been updated with a link to "Cineclub Miraflores" in Peru.

• A new link to El Salvador Hoy, published by El Diario de Hoy, now appears on our El Salvador page.

• Several additional sources for news and analysis from Mexico have been added to our Mexico page, including daily newspapers "El Imparcial" and "Siglo21," and the recently-launched electronic magazine "Mexico Virtual."