Other Online Resources
The Internet can be an excellent source for
basic background information, for contemporary news, and for quantitative data relevant to
the study of Latin American politics. That said, there is also a lot of bad information
available on the Internet; please be careful out there...! Use the same rigorous standards
that are applied to printed materials in your evaluation of online information.
On this page, you will find links relevant to
Latin American politics listed in four major groupings: Latin American studies, country
background information, contemporary online news, and country-specific links for
countries of particular interest in POSC 350 this semester.
Click on the heading below to move to the
section of interest to you right now:
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
| COUNTRY BACKGROUND | NEWS | POSC 350 COUNTRIES
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
 | Latin American Network Information Center
 | http://info.lanic.utexas.edu/
This comprehensive site is maintained by the Latin American studies program at the
University of Texas at Austin. It is considered by many to be the best
online resource for Latin American studies. The material is organized by subject & there is also a search
engine.
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| Latin American Studies Association
| http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/links.html
This brief links page is maintained by the Latin American Studies Association, the international professional association for the
study of Latin America. This site itself is not nearly as useful as LANIC but it provides a list of links to major Latin American studies
centers as well as a short list of data sources on the region. |
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| Political Database of the Americas
| http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/
This site maintained by the Latin American Studies program at Georgetown University
contains a wide variety of political data and information. Topics covered include
constitutions, electoral procedures and results, and political parties. A keyword
search engine is available on a separate page. |
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| Organization of American States
| http://www.oas.org/
This site for the Western Hemisphere's primary international organization contains
information and analysis on a variety of major regional issues. Perhaps the most
impressive section is the treatment of trade agreements and trade statistics. |
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| Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean
| http://www.eclac.org/default.asp?idioma=IN
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean provides socioeconomic statistics and analysis of the region. |
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| Inter-American Development Bank
| http://www.iadb.org/
This site for the region's intergovernmental financial institution also contains a wide
variety of economic data and analysis. |
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| Handbook of Latin American Studies
| http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/
This online version of the multi-volume handbook (maintained by the U.S. Library of Congress) is a fully searchable, multi-year
bibliography of many books and articles published on the region. You can browse by subject or conducted more complex searches
as you would in an online library catalog. |
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COUNTRY BACKGROUND
| CIA Publications Page
| http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/
This page contains links to online access of public domain CIA reporting. The CIA Factbook provides thumbnail physical,
economic, & political geographies of every nation-state in the world. This page also contains links to CIA publications providing
international economic statistics, lists of current political leaders, high quality maps, and a variety of historical information on the CIA
itself. This site is very useful as a preliminary introduction to countries but not very useful beyond that purpose. |
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| U.S. Department of State
Background Notes
| http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/ |
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| Library of Congress Country Studies
| http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
This page provides access to the online version of the country studies series conducted by the U.S. Library of Congress. Just
under 100 countries are currently treated in the site. Each country study has a detailed, hyperlinked table of contents; most of the
study is organized chronologically. This is a good site for finding a fairly comprehensive
online history of many different countries
but is cumbersome to read an entire history and even more burdensome (not to mention wasteful) to print one out. If you want to
read the entire country study, go to the library and check it out! |
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NEWS
| Yahoo!
online newspapers list
| http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/Countries/
Back in the hazy past of, say, 1992, people interested in reading foreign newspapers waited one or two weeks to read foreign daily
newspapers -- that is, if the newspapers were available at all either in a nearby library or via a (costly) personal subscription. Now,
literally hundreds of daily newspapers around the world are available online before they hit the streets in newsprint. Increasing
numbers of online papers provide 24-hour updating of major stories. This site, maintained by Yahoo!, provides a comprehensive
list of foreign & domestic newspapers available online. Please take advantage of this resource in following contemporary events in
the countries of special interest to you. Many newspapers have internal search engines and/or archives with past online editions.
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| The Economist
| http://www.economist.com/
This is the online site for what many people consider the best international weekly news magazine in the world, the London-based
The Economist. Right now, this site provides very limited services to those who are not subscribers but it does have a very useful
full-text search engine for issues published in the last few years. You can use this search engine to identify issues to read in printed
copies available in the library. If you have a keen interest in world affairs, you should consider going to current periodicals every
week and spending some time with The Economist. |
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| The BBC's
Americas News Section
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/default.stm
This site maintained by BBC provides coverage of major news stories
from around the world. The BBC will occasionally publish background reports
on major breaking stories. If you can read Spanish, you are better off
going to the Spanish-language site maintained by BBC -- which provides a
larger number and variety of stories on Latin America at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/latin_america/default.stm. |
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| CNN's World News Section
| http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/
This site maintained by CNN provides coverage of major news
stories from around the world. CNN will occasionally publish background
reports on major breaking stories. |
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| The Miami Herald
| http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/
This site contains a variety of news coverage across the region. |
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POSC 350 COUNTRIES of INTEREST
| Below you will find quick hyperlinks for countries of particular interest in POSC
350 this semester. The link is for the country's page in the comprehensive LANIC
site; the site is described above in the Latin American
studies links section.
| ARGENTINA
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| BRAZIL
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| CHILE
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| CUBA
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| GUATEMALA
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| MEXICO
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| VENEZUELA
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