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Argentina
Biblioteca Nacional Rep˙blica Argentina - (dead link) (Spanish or English)

Bases... - (dead link) (Spanish)
"...educational information about the most important work of Juan Bautista Alberdi [1810-1884] (Argentine political philosopher and diplomat), 'Departure bases and points for the political organization of the Argentine Republic', a masterpiece of political science. Many of the suggestions contained in it were incorporated into the Argentine constitution of 1853."
By Alberto Paronetto

George Washington University (US.) - National Security Archive

PBS - Wide Angle - The Empty ATM (August 2002)
The Argentina Economic Crisis
"What is Argentina's lesson for other advanced capitalists democracies?"
Sections include: Intro ; Photo Essay ; Timeline ; Info-Graphic ; Resources ; Classroom Connection ;  Interview with Fmr. World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stigltiz.

Brazil - (dead link) National Library of Brazil

Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
"...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."
Center for Research Libraries / Latin American Microfilm Project

George Washington University - National Security Archive

  • Brazil Marks 40th Anniversary of Military Coup
    "Declassified Documents Shed Light on U.S. Role"
    Includes audio tape of President Johnson urging taking "'every step that we can' to support overthrow of Joao Goulart."
    Edited by Peter Kornbluh, March 2004.
  • Nixon: "Brazil Helped Rig the Uruguayan Elections," 1971
    Briefing Book No. 71 (June 2002)
    Edited by Carlos Osorio
    "Newly declassified documents detail the Nixon administration's broad-gauged efforts to prevent a victory by the leftist 'Frente Amplio' in the Uruguayan presidential elections of 1971. The documents show that Nixon was aware of ñ and may in fact have been complicit in ñ Brazilian efforts to influence the election results."

Library of Congress - Global Gateway

A Short Historical Introduction to Capoeira

www.brazilink.org
"Connecting People, Information and Ideas on Brazil through Electronic Research"
"...is a non-profit, non-partisan website about social development issues in Brazil."
Sections include: Agenda: Children ; Gender ; AfroBrazilians ; Labour ; Environment ; Native People ; Rural Issues ; Human Rights & Justice ; Foreign Policy ; Economics ; History ; Society ; Politics. Information & Debate: Media ; Opinion Polling ; Periodicals ; Online Research ; International Sources ; Search Brazil. Institutions: Non-For-Profit Sector ; International NGOs ; Government ; Multilateral Institutions.
- Celia Correia, Editor & Coordinator

Brazilmax.com
Sections include: Places ; Travel Tips ; Features.
Includes a number of articles on local history.

Caribbean
H-Caribbean Discussion Network
"...is an H-Net discussion list and is sponsored by the Association of Caribbean Historians. The goals of this discussion list are multiple. Firstly, building on the work done by various associations and programs since the 1960s, one of the objectives of this list is to overcome the linguistic, political, and geographic fragmentation that has traditionally characterized the field and region. Secondly, this list will provide access to debates and discussions on Caribbean studies and act as a resource to academics teaching and researching in associated fields. Thirdly, this list will serve to reinforce the growing awareness of the region as an important and rich area for further research and study."

Peopling North America:
Population Movements & Migration
"An historical overview of migratory movements, this tutorial focuses on diasporas to and within Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean from Europe, Asia, and Africa."
The Applied History Group, Dept. of History, University of Calgary

The United Confederation of Taino People (UCTP)
"Home Page of the UCTP Affiliated Taino, Carib and Arawak Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean Islands and the United States."

Chile
George Washington University - National Security Archive

  • Pinochet: A Declassified Documentary Obit
    Archive Posts Records on former Dictator's Repression, Acts of Terrorism, U.S. Support.
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 212.
    Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Yvette White, December 2006.
  • Chile Documentation Project - (dead link)
  • Chile and Operation Condor (June 2004)
    Operation Condor Documents Indicate 1976 Terrorism Attack in Washington Might Have Been Prevented
    "Operation Condor has received renewed international attention over the last several weeks. On May 28 a Chilean court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution for Condor-related crimes."
  • The Penochet File
    "Nixon on Chile Intervention White House Tape Acknowledges Instructions to Block Salvador Allende"
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 110, February 2004.
  • Chile: 16,000 Secret U.S. Documents Declassified
    "The release, totaling over 50,000 pages of State Department, CIA, White House, Defense and Justice Department records, represents the fourth and final ìtrancheî of the Clinton Administrationís special Chile Declassification Project ... The declassification includes 700 controversial CIA documents that the Directorate of Operations had refused to releaseórecords of U.S. covert operations between 1968 and 1975 to destabilize the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and, after the violent 1973 coup, to bolster the military regime of Augusto Pinochet." 

Human Rights Watch

Instituto de Historia, Pontificia Universidad CatÛlica de Chile

Columbia
The Eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz Volcano Columbia, South America, November 13, 1985
Committee on Natural Disasters, Division of Natural Hazard Mitigation, National Research Council, 1991. National Academy Press.

George Washington University - National Security Archive

  • War in Colombia
    Guerrillas, Drugs and Human Rights in U.S.-Columbia Policy, 1988-2002
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 69
    Edited by Michael Evans

Costa Rica
Universidad de Costa Rica - Center for Central American Historical Research

Cuba
Bay of Pigs : 40 Years After
An International Conference, Havana, Cuba - March 22-24, 2001
Includes: Index of Declassified Cuban Documents ; Chronology ; CIA Oral History Transcripts
From The National Security Archive, The George Washington University

Castro Speech Database
"...is a database containing the full text of English translations of speeches, interviews, and press conferences by Fidel Castro, based upon the records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency responsible for monitoring broadcast and print media in countries throughout the world. These records are in the public domain."
"It is not to be construed that this database contains all statements, speeches, and interviews made by Fidel Castro."
Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas

[Cruz, Celia] Smithsonian National Museum of American History

  • °Az˙car! : The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
    "Celia Cruz became an influential and legendary musical figureóin her native country, her adopted country, and around the world. Listen to examples of her music at different periods of her career and view photos and costumes from throughout her lifetime....The story of Celia Cruz can inspire students of all ages to explore a wide range of subjects, including immigration, history, geography, music theory, music history, and art."
    Sections include: Her Life ; Her Music ; Her Dressing Room ; Resources ; Lesson Plans.

Cuban Heritage Digital Collection
University of Miami - UM Digital Library Initiatives

Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society and Museum
Key West, Florida

  • Key West African Cemetery - The Last Slave Ships - (dead link)
    "A riveting story about slave ships captured by the US Navy and brought to shore in Key West. A story about the ships, their crew and human cargo that united the town in a humanitarian
    effort to end human suffering. Exhibition located at the Mel Fish."
    Sections include: Introduction ; U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade ; Africa ; Slave Ships and the Clandestine Trade ; Africans in Key West ; Cuba ; Liberia ; African Cemetery in Key

Georgetown University - National Security Archive

  • Conflicting Missions
    Secret Cuban Documents on History of Africa Involvement
    "...detailing Cuba's policy and involvement in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. The records are a sample of dozens of internal reports, memorandum and communications obtained by Piero Gleijeses, a historian at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, for his new book, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (The University of North Carolina Press)."
    [George Washington University] National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 67.
    Edited by Peter Kornbluh

  • The U-2, OXCART, and the SR-71
    U.S. Aerial Espionage in the Cold War and Beyond
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 74
    Jeffrey T. Richelson, Editor, October 16, 2002
    "...a comprehensive documentary history of U.S. aerial espionage in the Cold War and beyond. This publication comes 40 years to the day after CIA analysts briefed President John F. Kennedy on what is probably the most famous overhead reconnaissance photograph of all time...includes 50 declassified documents from the CIA, the White House, the Department of Defense and other agencies..."
  • Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
    Good introduction and chronology of events
    National Security Archive, George Washington University
  • Operation Mongoose-Propaganda Balloon Operations Plan, 10 Oct., 1962
    CIA mission to undermine Fidel Castro
  • The Real Thirteen Days:
    The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crises
    On this informative multimedia site from the NSA you can "Read the Documents," "Hear the Voices," "See the Photographs," and "Learn the Lessons."
  • State Department 9 June 1975 MemCon, Cuba Policy on Henry Kissinger's Attempted DÈtente with Castro

Latin American Network Information Center - Cuba

The Pichs Collection
Exploring Cuba's History Through Postal Stamps
"This exhibition, with text by Joseph Geraci, Philatelist (Emeritus) from the National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, includes many "folded letters" (pre-philatelic covers), stamped envelopes, and historic postcards from the Pichs collection, all of which have never before been published."
- Smithsonian National Postal Museum

Puerto Padre, Historico, Cuba
A well done local history

University of Miami - Cuban Heritage Collection

  • Cuban Heritage Digital Collection
    • Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection - (dead link) [Highlights]
      "The Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection primarily consists of hundreds of photographs of Cuba from the turn of the 20th century to the 1990s."

Ecuador
Amazon Interactive - (dead link) (K12)
"Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the RÌo Napo."
- Educational Web Adventures

The March 5, 1987, Ecuador Earthquakes: Mass Wasting and Socioeconomic Effects
Committee on Natural Disasters, National Research Council, 1991.

El Salvador
Enemies of War
"Throughout the 1980s, El Salvador - a country rich with coffee growers and rife with poverty - endured a brutal civil war, largely ignored by the international community. While the United States aid supplied the El Salvadoran army, its soldiers ravaged the countryside, killing civilians - many of them women and children ... In 1989, the horrific murder of six Jesuit priests and two women shocked the world into action. Following the U.S. investigation into the atrocity, ENEMIES OF WAR reveals the stories of people embarking on a seemingly impossible path to peace in a country suffering from war."
Sections include: The Story ; The People ; El Salvador ; Timeline ; Perspectives ; The Film ; Talkback ; Resources
- PBS Online

Guatemala
George Washington University - National Security Archive

  • The Oliver North File: His Diaries, E-Mail, and Memos on the Kerry Report, Contras and Drugs
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 113, February 2004.
    "...directly contradict his criticisms yesterday [February 25, 2004] of Sen. John Kerry's 1988 Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee report on the ways that covert support for the Nicaraguan contras in the 1980s undermined the U.S. war on drugs."
  • Guatemala Documentation Project - (dead link)
    Kate Doyle, Director
    • The Guatemalan Military: What the U.S. Files Reveal
      NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 32
      Presented in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1 June 2000
      "Archive's Guatemala Documentation Project releases two volume report and database on Guatemalan security forces."

Haiti
The Haitian Revolution
13-year revolution which culminated in the independence of Haiti from France in 1804.
Sections include: Introduction ; Subject Headings ; Bibliographies ; Indexes, Abstracts & Catalogs ; Scope ; Browsing Areas ; Bibliographical Sources ; Internet Resources ; Frequently Mentioned Texts ; Dictionaries & Encyclopedias.
By Joanne Spadaro, School of Information Science & Policy, University of Albany, SUNY.

Jamaica
Jamaica National Heritage Trust
Sections include: Archaeology ; Organizations ; Churches ; Jamaica ; Links.

  • History of Jamaica - (dead link)
    Sections include: Pre-Columbian ; Columbian/Spanish ; English ; Independence.

Mexico - See Mexican History

Nicaragua
George Washington University - National Security Archives

  • The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On
    Documents Spotlight Role of Reagan, Top Aids
    Pentagon Nominee Robert Gates Among Many Prominent Figures Involved in the Scandal.
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 210, November 2006.

Panama
The Panama Canal - El Canal de Panama (Spanish or English)
Sections include: General Information ; Legal Foundations ; Canal Watershed ; Our Clients ; Virtual Newsroom ; Procurement & Sales ; Maritime Operations ; Programs & Projects ; Photo Gallery ; Canal History ; Live Camera ; Weather Radar.

Peru
George Washington University - The National Security Archive
"...an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act FOIA).

  • "Montesinos: Blind Ambition"
    The Peruvian Townsend Commission Report and Declassified U.S. Documentation
    Electronic Briefing Book No. 72, June 26, 2002
    Edited by Tamara Feinstein
    Also includes U.S. State Dept. Human Rights Reports on Peru and independent Peruvian Human Rights Links.
  • Peru in "The Eye of the Storm"
    Declassified U.S. Documentation on Human Rights Abuses and Political Violence (January 22, 2002)
    Edited by Tamara Feinstein

Peru Coast Earthquake (06/23/01) - 7.9

Uruguay
George Washington University (U.S) - National Security Archive

  • Nixon: "Brazil Helped Rig the Uruguayan Elections," 1971
    Briefing Book No. 71 (June 2002)
    Edited by Carlos Osorio
    "Newly declassified documents detail the Nixon administration's broad-gauged efforts to prevent a victory by the leftist 'Frente Amplio' in the Uruguayan presidential elections of 1971. The documents show that Nixon was aware of ñ and may in fact have been complicit in ñ Brazilian efforts to influence the election results."

Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands History
"A guide to sources for the history of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands), 1671-1917."
Sections include: The Islands ; Literature ; Archives ; Finding Aids ; About.
- Danish National Archives



 

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