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Web resources:
Americas Program - Policy briefs and analysis from the International Relations Center. Includes information on migration and health.
Doctors Without Borders - Browse stories by choosing a country of interest in the drop down menu.
Human Rights Watch - News releases, and publications. Select Countries in the drop-down menu for a range of countries to choose from.
Independent Media Center: Indymedia - Alternative news source from many different world areas, including Latin America.
NicaNet, The Nicaraguan Network - "In February of 1979, the Network was founded to support the popular struggle to overthrow the 45 year US-supported Somoza family dictatorship, and after the July 19 victory, to support the efforts of the Sandinista Revolution to provide a better life for the nation’s people. Since then, the Network has been a leading organization in the United States committed to social and economic justice for Nicaragua, Latin America and the world, based on respect for sovereignty and self-determination. ...Publications include the weekly free English-language Nicaragua News Bulletin and occasional monographs."
Revista Enviro - Archive of stories kept here from the 1980's. In Spanish.
The Sandinista Record on Human Rights in Nicaragua 1979-1990 - A 1992 article from Droit et Societe by W. Gordon West.
Sandinista War on Human Rights - Dated July 19, 1983, by Richard Araujo and scanned by the Heritage Foundation.
United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures - From the Library of Congress, historical interactions in the 18th century to the present.
War in Colombia: Guerrillas, Drugs and Human Rights in U.S.-Colombia Policy, 1988-2002 - From the National Security Archive.
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