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A non-governmental association of institutions which provide information on current social sciences research, publication lists, a directory of researchers, and links to other sites of interest.
An international organization created to promote education, research and technical cooperation among the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The largest professional association for individuals and institutions involved with Latin America.
The oldest regional organization in the world. All countries in the Americas are members. The OAS collects data on economic, political and social issues of member states.
WOLA is an organization whose purpose is to promote human rights issues, equitable economic development and sustainable development in Latin America. The site contains a variety of articles on these issues.
Directory of labor organizations worldwide
Daily stock quotes from various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are available here. This site also links to bond market information.
Covers a wide variety of information on border issues, including business and immigration.
A publication of the Inter-American Foundation which provides information on small community development projects throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
The collected newspaper sites from the Latin American Network Information Center's (LANIC) web site.
Access to a wide variety of electronic publications is provided here. The site is organized by country and general subject area.
The site for the international version of Spain's largest newspaper.
Bibliographies, information on women, employment, education, and other topics relating to the Latino community are available at this site.
The Library of Congress publishes and updates this series which contains information describing and analyzing the political, economic and social structure of many countries worldwide.
A site which includes a discussion list, reviews of scholarly books and monographs, and tables of contents to a variety of Latin American history journals. Affiliated with the Conference of Latin American History (CLAH).
LANIC is the largest and most comprehensive site for access to information on, or about, Latin America and the Caribbean. The site is searchable by both country and subject area.
An excellent source for general information about Latin America and the Caribbean. Access is provided to radio broadcasts, cultural sites, company information and, "best new internet sites."
This site contains information relating to the U.S.-Mexican border region. Along with the texts of research reports written by SCERP there are links to a variety of interesting sites which focus on environmental, trade, and policy issues of the region.
Home page of Covenant House which concerns itself with the rights of children in Latin America. Includes information on street children, illegal adoptions, child labor and the sexual exploitation of children.
A large site which contains articles, lists of human rights NGO's and links to other sites by country.
The NCHR is an organization which seeks to disseminate information about and promote human rights for Haitian-Americans and Haitian refugees. Information on legislation which relates to the Haitian community can be found here as well as news from various sources such as the Agence Haitienne de Presse and the Miami Herald, among others.
Information on human rights during the military rule in Argentina can be located at this site including articles, a bibliography and the names of the "desaparecidos."
This site contains the library catalog and journals database of the BLDS at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK. The database includes over 116,000 records of documents on economic and social development.
A selective index and one of the most important sources for literature on Latin American issues. Over fifty years of indexing is available online. The library also owns the printed index: Ref. Z 1605 H23.
An invaluable resource for current information on Latin America. Informationis collected from interational news wires, electronic bulletin boards, Latin American journals, as well as other sources. Enter the database by clicking on the "Search the Archive."
A project of the Association of Research Libraries in cooperation with a variety of research libraries in the U.S. to create a prototype for journal access in Latin American studies. Searching and browsing access to 350 journals from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico is available.
A bibliographic index to international literature on population, demographics, and migration from 1986-2000.
A central web site for internet resources relating to the archaeology of Central America, the Caribbean and South America, among others.
A site containing documents about and of interest to individuals and groups involved with indigenous issues.
This source provides access to a Spanish to Spanish dictionary as well as a Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary.
A Portuguese to Portuguese dictionary which also includes information on verb conjugations.
A guide to the rules of Spanish grammar.
Entering the infinitive of a verb in Spanish will display all the conjugated forms of that verb.
A web museum devoted to one of the greatest artists of this century.
A site for information on Latin American films and directors.
The wide variety of music from Latin America and the Caribbean is featured here. Includes music clips.
A partially annotated bibliography by Svend Erik Lindberg-Hansen from the book, Third World Democratization which includes information on Central American and the Caribbean as well as South America.
The Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas from UNAM is the sponsor of this site which contains a wide variety of information on the laws of Mexico. The full text of the, "Anuario Jurídico de Mexico" is also available here.
Four treaties between Mexico and the U.S. are available in full text, including the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Contains statistical and political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information, and election data.
Another site from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School. This site contains not only the text of treaties with Spain but also notes on the treaties and Presidential messages.
Included here is the text of the Texas-American Boundary Convention of 1838 and the Treaty of Velasco (1836), among other texts.
Contains information on development grants, fellowships, and grant statistics by country.
Contains a wide array of data on regional economic indicators such as population, national accounts, debt, and also information on trade and income. The IDB annual publication, "Economic and Social Progress in Latin America" is also available at this site.
Information on U.S. trade with Latin America and the Caribbean is available at this site.
A collection of official government information resources maintained by the UC Berkeley Library.
Arranged by country, the database provides links to government sites within Latin America and also includes links to a variety of statistical sources.
The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research organization which collects and makes available declassified documents obtained through the "Freedom of Information Act." Consult this site for valuable information on the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Inspector General's critique of the CIA and Bay of Pigs Invasion. Other material of interest may be put up as it is made available.
Selected economic and social data for Latin American and Caribbean countries are available at this site, including data on health, population growth, deforestation, literacy, trade and economic growth.
