Search Engines, News, and Blogs
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News Sources in English on Latin
America and the Caribbean-- Buenos
Aires Herald (Argentina), Santiago Times
(Chile), MercoPress (Southern Cone), Tico
Times (Costa Rica), The Gleaner
(Jamaica), Colombia Reports,
Caribbean
Journal, Google
News, BBC,
CNN, Latin
America News Dispatch, Christian
Science Monitor, Washington
Post, New
York Times, Miami
Herald, Los
Angeles Times, Global
Post, Inter
Press Service, Reuters
Brazil News, Reuters
Mexico News, The
Guardian
Insightful Blogs about Latin
America and the Caribbean-- Bloggings
by Boz, The Latin
Americanist, Observing Brazil,
Brazil
in Focus, LatIntelligence,
Foreign
Policy Association, Latin
America and Caribbean (World Bank), Americas
View (The Economist), Americas
Quarterly, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, AULA Blog,
Caracas
Chronicles
Other
Sources
• Americas Center-- From the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, with a lot of staff papers, economic analyses, statistics, and speeches online, plus links on Latin American macroeconomic and financial topics.
• Americas Program of the Center for International Policy-- "A leading source of information for activists, academics and citizens concerned about US foreign policy toward Latin America and movements for social justice within the hemisphere." Articles, commentaries, and reports on Latin American issues are posted online.
• Americas
Society and Council of the Americas-- Joint website
for, respectively, the "the premier forum dedicated to
education, debate, and dialogue in the Americas," and "the
premier international business organization whose members
share a common commitment to economic and social
development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy
throughout the Western Hemisphere." Posts news, analysis,
and videos by topics, countries, and other categories.
• FLACSO Andes-- Social science
research center focusing on the Andean countries and Latin
America, based in Quito. Features a very useful virtual
library with full-text digital books, an academic debate
forum to post papers, a digital repository with theses,
magazines, bulletins, videos, photos, and multimedia, and
a web directory.
• Handbook of Latin American Studies--
From the Hispanic Division of the United States Library of
Congress, this is an annual multidisciplinary bibliography
on Latin America, consisting of works selected and
annotated by scholars. It is now online as a thoroughly
searchable database, from Volume 1 (1935) to date. An
excellent resource.
• H-Caribbean--
Member
of
the
H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online initiative,
"sponsored by the Association of Caribbean Historians,"
aiming to overcome "fragmentation that has traditionally
characterized the field and region... provide access to
debates and discussions on Caribbean studies, act as a
resource to academics teaching and researching in
associated fields [and] serve to reinforce the growing
awareness of the region as an important and rich area for
further research and study."
• H-LatAm
Discussion Network-- "International forum for the
scholarly discussion of Latin American History. It is a
member of the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences
Online initiative and affiliated with the Conference On
Latin American History."
• InSight-- Aims
to "increase the level of research, analysis and
investigation on organized crime in Latin America and the
Caribbean... connects the pieces, the players and
organizations and gives a cohesive look of the region’s
criminal enterprises and the effectiveness of the
initiatives designed to stop them," with emphasis on
Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia.
• Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights-- From "one of two bodies in the
inter-American system for the promotion and protection of
human rights," information on the Commission and about
human rights issues in the Western Hemisphere, published
as yearly reports, country reports, and in other formats.
• Inter-American Development Bank-- Many
authoritative working papers, reports, statistics, and
databases online concerning a wide range of social,
economic, and political matters in specific countries and
in the whole region of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Main Index Page-- Overview of all
site contents. The Publications page is another
starting point.
Countries Page-- Starting point for
information, statistics, and studies by country.
Felipe Herrera Library-- Search the
IDB site and beyond for information and analysis on Latin
America.
Research and Data-- Note especially
the Publications page, with many high
quality studies online.
Highly recommended: the annual survey "Economic
and Social Progress in Latin America"
• Inter-American Dialogue-- "The
leading U.S. center for policy analysis, exchange, and
communication on issues in Western Hemisphere affairs. The
Dialogue brings together public and private leaders from
across the Americas to address hemispheric problems and
opportunities." Various types of publications online.
• Inter-American Press Association--
Prestigious "non-profit organization dedicated to
defending freedom of expression and of the press
throughout the Americas." Reports, press releases, and
news on press freedom in the countries of the Western
Hemisphere and related information. Maintains a directory
for online access to well over 1000 newspapers and
magazines in the Americas.
• Just the Facts-- "Citizen
effort to oversee and understand the United States'
military relationship with the Western Hemisphere." Posts
data, analysis, links, and more on the topic. "A project
of the Latin America Working Group Education Fund in
cooperation with the Center for International Policy and
the Washington Office on Latin America."
• Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas-- At the University of Texas at Austin, this Center posts news and analysis on journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean and offers a newsletter on journalism in the Americas.
• Latin
America and Caribbean Research Portal-- From the
University of London, "offers a searchable directory of
Latin American and Caribbean Studies research resources in
the UK. The site displays lists of academic
staff/researchers, thesis in progress,
institutions/centres/universities, libraries and museums
in UK and EIRE working in this area."
• Latin America Working Group-- "Coalition of over sixty [U.S.] religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations... striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in the region." Online news, policy analysis reports, and general studies.
• Latin American Databank-- From the
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, "locates,
acquires, processes and archives public opinion surveys
conducted by the survey research community in Latin
America, including universities, institutes, individual
scholars, private polling and public opinion research
firms." Results of most of the studies are posted
cost-free.
• Latin American Economic System (SELA)--
Regional, economic integration-focused IGO, with
searchable reports, bulletins, articles, database, and
other publications online, mainly in Spanish.
• Latin
American Network Information Center-- The University
of Texas at Austin maintains one of the major sites in the
world for Latin American information, which serves as the
WWW Virtual Library of Latin American Studies. The site is
organized by country, subject, region, and LANIC projects
and hosted databases, including a full-text database of
Fidel Castro's speeches. Note the Latin American Government Documents
Archive, which "seeks to preserve and facilitate
access to a wide range of ministerial and presidential
documents from 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
The Archive contains copies of the Web sites of
approximately 300 government ministries and presidencies."
• Latin American Pamphlet Digital
Collection-- From Harvard's Widener Library, posts
over 5000 "scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets
published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries...
valuable primary resources for students and researchers
working on Latin American history."
• Latin American Program of the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars-- A
"nonpartisan forum in Washington, D.C. to discuss Latin
American and Caribbean issues and to bring these issues to
the attention of opinion leaders and policy makers
throughout the hemisphere" through "public
forums...independent research and...residential
fellowships to distinguished scholars and senior
policymakers." Site posts information on the Program, many
of its publications, event summaries, and media files.
Note especially the many postings of the Brazil
Institute.
• Latin
American Public Opinion Project-- From Vanderbilt
University, "databases of public opinion information about
political viewpoints across Latin America," collected over
decades on topics related to democracy, such as "system
support, political tolerance, citizen participation, local
government, corruption, and views on authoritarianism."
This large site posts and links to many analytical studies
from the polls and makes data sets available. Note
especially the Americas
Barometer, a survey of political, economic, and social
attitudes in the region.
•
Latin American Studies Association--
LASA is the largest professional association in the world
for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of
Latin America, and offers (to members only) hundreds of
downloadable papers from its most recent International
Congresses. Note that some of the specialized country and
topic study sections have their own web sites.
• Latinobarómetro--
"Non-profit NGO based in Santiago, Chile [that] researches
the development of democracy and economies as well as
societies, using indicators of opinion, attitudes,
behaviour and values. Its results are used by social and
political actors, international organizations, governments
and the media." English language version of site is
available. Posts cost-free online its excellent annual
surveys and reports about democracy in Latin America, as
well as some other analytical products.
• Organization of American States--
This principal international organization of the Western
Hemisphere posts many documents and much information,
analysis, and statistical data. Extensive resources are
found in the Foreign Trade Information System,
with information, statistics, and documents about
hemispheric integration, trade trends in the Western
Hemisphere, and links to further data.
• Pew Hispanic Center-- "Non-partisan
research organization supported by The Pew Charitable
Trusts. Its mission is to improve understanding of the
U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos’ growing
impact on the entire nation." Authoritative source for
online data and public opinion surveys about the
demography, economics, education, and identity of the U.S.
Hispanic population. Based at the University of Southern
California's Annenberg School for Communication.
• QUIPUSTAT-- "Bilingual application
for public use intended for users and producers of labour
statistics of Latin America and the Caribbean. It was
developed with the aim of contributing to improve the
quality and availability of labour statistics and analysis
from the region." In cooperation with the ILO's Regional
Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Labour
Information and Analysis System.
• ReVista-- From the David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, a
free analytical and themed magazine in PDF about the
region, published three times yearly, with archives back
to Fall 1998.
• United Nations Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean-- News, information,
many statistics, and many online reports are available
free in full-text from this United Nations regional
organization. Great source for high quality online
economic information about Latin America, including the
annual Social Panorama of Latin America.
• Washington Office on Latin America--
A leading advocate for human rights, democracy, and social
and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Coverage and analysis of topics including U.S. legislation
and policy, country and regional situations, military aid,
and key current issues, with online publications.
• World Bank Latin American and Caribbean--
Full-text papers, discussion notes, and reports on
economic, environmental, and social issues in Latin
America and the Caribbean today.
