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International Affairs

• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO).  This site is "designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.  It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGO's, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences."

• Council on Foreign Relations, Latin American Studies Program.

• Information Services Latin America (ISLA). This site has a host of special reports and useful links concerning Latin America.

• The CIA Electronic Document Release Center recently issued documents related to Latin America.
• Bay of Pigs
• Guatemala
• Human Rights in Latin America

• Inforpress Centroamericana - "Analysis and information about the economic and political events of the region." Abstracts of current articles and special reports available free; in-depth reports, archives, and custom research services are for subscribers only. Available in Spanish and English.
   
• Inter-American Dialogue - "The premier U.S. center for policy analysis, communication, and exchange on Western Hemisphere affairs." Includes a number of free publications in Adobe PDF format. English.

• The National Security Archive Located at George Washington University, the Archive is a collection of previously classified political documents, often relating to Latin America. Currently, featured documents contain information Mexico's foreign policy on Cuba.  Older documents discuss Argentina's Guerra Sucia.

• Organization of American States (OAS/OEA)
• Draft of the Inter-American Democratic Charter. This charter, drafted in San José, Costa Rica between June 3-5, 2001 must be completed by September 10, 2001. This Web site is meant to encourage the participation of citizens throughout the hemisphere in developing this "affirmation of democratic principles" through comments, suggestions and other types of input. Also viewable in French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). A union database of international affairs related article citations compiled by a number of European research institutes. Spain's CIDOB (Barcelona) contributes most of the Latin Americanist content, thus the CIDOB boxes must be checked to maximize search results on Latin America. The Fundación CIDOB also has a searchable database with Latin American content of interest.

• Americas Program - An analysis of U.S.-Latin America issues and policy.

• The WWW VirtualLibrary: International Affairs Resources Contains more than 1400 annotated links covering a range of international affairs matters.

Latin American Government

• Links to Foreign Governments of Central and South America and the Caribbean, from the University of Michigan's Documents Center.
• Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
• Political Database of the Americas
• Boletin LatinoAmericano de Competencia
• Latin American Election Statistics, a guide to Latin American sources compiled by the University of California San Diego Latin American Librarian.
• Electoral Data Sets. Includes electoral data from third-wave democracies gathered by Miguel Centellas at Western Michigan University.
• Database of the Argentinean Chamber of Deputies Historical Archives

United States

• Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
• U.S. AID U.S. Agency for International Development
• Washington Office on Latin America

International Treaties

• United Nations Treaty Collection


Miscellaneous

• Embassy World.com
• Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU); Geneva
• United Nations (UN/ONU)
• World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• World Flag Database


Brazil

• Senado Federal
  • Museu Electrónico do Senado Federal
• Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística contains a database and a link to download files (FTP) and well as other information.
• Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project - Part of the Latin American Microfilm Project at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).  "Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to digitize executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire to 1889."
• Partido dos Trabalhadores - The Workers' Party of Brazil
  • Fundação Perseu Abramo - The foundation maintained by PT, which organizes debate, research and publication.  It also hosts and manages PT's historical archives.
• Law of the Amazon - A BBC program, including audio, about a man who travels the Amazon with a Brazilian judge to experience the "floating court" system. English.


Guatemala

• Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Politicos (INCEP)-To contribute, from a Christian human  perspective, to the integral development of Central America, founded in social justice, and represented by the cultural values of their communities.  We struggle to make Central America a region of peace, democracy and a sustainable development for the benefit of all its citizens.


Mexico

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. Official statistics on population, migration, economics, education, etc. from Mexico.


Paraguay

• Paraguayan bibliography, created through the auspices of the Paraguay Section of LASA.


Peru

• Congreso de la República del Perú
• Instituto del Mar del Perú

 

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