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Latin American Knowledge Harvester: Home
University of New Mexico site that has lots of metadata and links to abstracts and other information sources.....
MiamiHerald.com | Afro-Latin Americans
Excellent site with information on blacks in the Americas. Good statistics
Portal de búsqueda, visualización y descarga de información y datos espaciales
Geonetwork site for Ecuador
LAC- Poverty Maps
THIS page has a comprehensive list of poverty maps for LAC. But it does not give the full reference.
To the Heavens From the Jungle’s Edge - NYTimes.com
Interesting piece about Kourou, French Guiana. I visited this country in the late 1990s and this French space station is a big part of what goes on (would be interesting to know how much of GDP it is responsible for).
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A new Atlas from Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) with country level indicators of health, nutrition, demographics and socioeconomics
DIGITAL POVERTY: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
This is a book on the web about "digital poverty" in LAC.
Poverty, Environmental Services, LAC
This is a workshop summary, but it could be useful for our desakota lit review....
WorldwideRemittances.jpg (JPEG Image, 928x555 pixels)
Total Remittances to Developing Countries: $US 301 Billion....this is a map with regional and some country breakdowns....but not really a map, just the values....
geografwiki: WELCOME : BIENVENIDOS : BOAVINDA : BIENVENUE
This is the page for geographers in the Americas. This could be very good if lots of people participate.
Mexico Metadata Distribution Center
This goes out and searches different nodes. I did not find anything on roads, and have not tried anything else.
MEXICO ...BUSCADOR DE MAPAS DE LA SEMARNAT
search engine for Mexican GIS data
Guatemala Univalle SD clearinghous
Univalle-Guatemala's web site and spatial data clearinghouse...
China urged to join sustainable soy efforts in the Amazon
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Brazilian soy crushers have urged China to join an alliance to promote sustainable soybean production in the Amazon, according to Reuters.
Brazil: Fugure Agricultural Expansion Potential Underrated.
Interesting assessment of agricultural prospects in Brazil.
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The key observation gleaned from this investigation is that the future of farming in Brazil has enormous potential, and that previous estimates of the scope for possible agricultural expansion have been grossly underestimated.
Why They Booed Her in Mexico - New York Times
This story points to a consistent theme in Latin American relations with the USA - the love-hate relationship. This goes far beyond Mexico to the whole region.
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