SOURCES AND GENERAL RESOURCES ON LATIN AMERICA

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

U.S. Mexico Border Environment Bibliography (Dec. 1997)

Review of Recent Writings on the Zapatistas of Chiapas (3/98)

BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

Argentine Presidential MessagesFull text versions of the inaugural messages of all of Argentina's presidents.
Chiapas 95. To get to the Chiapas95 archive, follow this link (The University of Texas Department of Economics) by scrolling down to "Network Information." Then click on "Mailing List Archives." That will open up a Gopher menu, and you should choose: Chiapas 95. This is a gopher archive of most documents relating to the Zapatista (EZLN) uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. The direct gopher address is: Chiapas 95

Congreso Nacional Indigena A set of documents from the October 1996 meeting of all indigeneous groups in Mexico. Most in Spanish, with some in English, French, etc.

Constitution of the Republic of Peru (October 1856)

The Illustrating Traveler: Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895

Latin American Government Documents Project

UNESCO World Information ReportSome of the information reported here is on Latin America (Ch. 8 in particular). 

LATIN AMERICAN DATA BASES AND INDICES

Hispanic American Periodicals Index. (Note - this site is only free of charge for a short time.)

Historical Text Archive based at Mississippi State University

Internet Resources for Latin America

LANIC

Latin America on the Net/Latinoamerica en la red, an extremely useful web site which includes, among other things, many of the full Constitutions of Latin American states as well as official statistics.

North American Congress on Latin American Index Page

Latin American Studies Reading Room at Ohio State University

Migrations: The Americas, 1600-1800

Richard Slatta's Home Page - with exceptionally good links to many Latin American sources

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY: BY TOPIC/CHRONOLOGY

Exploration and Discovery

Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas, from the University of Pennsylvania, presents and interprets a wide variety of texts -- books, manuscripts, illustrations, maps, and artifacts -- generated by Europe's colonization of the Americas.

Colonial Latin America

1898

Library of Congress collection of movies from 1898

Jim Zwick web sites on Filipino uprisings against US rule and Bibliography on 1898

Naval Battle

The War of 1898 in Puerto Rico
1898-1998 

LIBRARIES WITH SPECIAL LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS

Tulane University Latin American Library. This collection is divided into the following sections: Reference Services and Resources, Exhibits, Treasures of the Collection, Rare Books, Manuscripts, Photographs [a particularly useful section], Maps, Newspapers, and the Merle Greene Robertson Collection of Rubbings of Mayan Relief Sculpture.

MAPS

Map of Middle America

Map of South America

MISCELLANEOUS

Left Wing Lingo, Ideologies, and History, an excellent resource on Leftist ideologies (19th century to contemporary), with wonderful links to primary source documentation.

Radical History and Politics

ORGANIZATIONS SPECIALIZING IN LATIN AMERICA

British Society for Latin American Studies

Latin American Studies at the University of Texas

Latin American Studies Association

ORGANIZATIONS OF INTEREST TO ACTIVISTS WORKING ON LATIN AMERICA

Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)

Guatemala Accompaniment Project (returning refugee and displaced communities in Guatemala): email: ncoordgap@igc.apc.org

Information Services on Latin America (ISLA)

Latin American Working Group

MADRE: email: madre@igc.apc.org

The National Security Archive

North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)

Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN)

Frente Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (FZLN - the EZLN's political wing)

PHOTOGRAPHS OF LATIN AMERICA

PUBLICATIONS FROM THE U.S. ON LATIN AMERICA

Ciberallu

Latin American Perspectives

SOURCES BY COUNTRY

BRAZIL
 

COSTA RICA.
Costa Rica Meta-Database of Bibliographic References

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

ECUADOR

EL SALVADOR
Interview with Violeta Menjivar (Political Commission, FMLN)

NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, AND OTHER MEDIA FROM LATIN AMERICA

ARGENTINA
La Nacion
Buenos Aires Herald
Diario Rio Negro
El Diario de los Andes [Mendoza]
Intermedia Brief
Clarin (Buenos Aires)

BOLIVIA
Bolivian Times

BRAZIL
Brasil News Roundup
Axnews
O Povo

CHILE
Diario Electronico COPESA
El Mercurio
MagaziNet
Siglo XXI
Teletrece
Enlaces de TVN

COLOMBIA
La Semana
El Tiempo (Bogota)
El Pais (Cali)
El Colombiano (Medellin)

COSTA RICA
La Nacion (San Jose)

ECUADOR
El Telegrafo

EL SALVADOR
El Diario de Hoy (San Salvador)

GUATEMALA
Prensa Libre
Gerencia

JAMAICA
Jamaica Gleaner

MEXICO
El Diario de Yucatan (Merida)
El Imparcial (Hermosillo)
El Informador (Guadalajara)
La Jornada
El Norte (Monterrey)
Reforma
DUMAC
Etcetera (Mexico DF)
PC Semanal
Soluciones Avanzadas
Mexico Business
Radioactivo 98.5

NICARAGUA
La Prensa

PANAMA
El Siglo

PERU
La Republica (Lima); La Industria (Trujillo)

PUERTO RICO
Claridad

REPUBLICA DOMINICANA
Listin Diario (Santo Domingo)

URUGUAY
El Pais

VENEZUELA
El Carabobeno
El Universal