History of Latin America - Research Aids
Send me your suggestions for other resources you've found especially useful!
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The Latin American News Digest and Americas Quarterly are good places to start (the latter also has a podcast)
The Los Angeles Times , Miami Herald , New York Times , and Washington Post all have Americas sections.
The Chicago Tribune doesn't, but a keyword search can yield good results
The Dallas Morning News (in Spanish) is better for Mexico than for the rest of the Latin America
Other online news services and special programs: InterPress News Service Agency's Latin America section; MercoPress for South America; Al Jazeera; BBC World News; Latino USA; Marketplace from American Public Radio (their "Mexico" page is more complete); and Univision's news service (Spanish).
Global Voices features citizen journalists/bloggers
For international affairs, start with The Brookings Institute and the Woodrow Wilson Center
For rainforests and other environmental issues, I recommend: Mongabay.com
For organized crime, I recommend: InSightCrime.org
For Central America, I highly recommend: ElFaro.net or in English here
and in Spanish, for Guatemala,
Plaza Pública (from the Jesuit university) and TanGente
For Nicaragua, Confidencial continues the epic struggle between the Chamorro family and Daniel Ortega
(in English here)
For Brazil, I recommend The Brazilian Report
For Venezuela, compare the opposition caracaschronicles.com
with the pro-Chavista though not necessarily pro-Maduro venezuelaanalysis.com
For Cuba:
14ymedio.com (dissident), Granma (government), Cibercuba.com (Spain), and El Nuevo Herald (Miami exile)
The National Security Archive and International Center for Transitional Justice have deep expertise in the region --
See the NSA's podcast with Reveal on the Ayotzinapa 43 in English or Spanish
NACLA and WOLA were born out of opposition to U.S. policy towards Latin America during the Cold War;
they are featured in this book
H-LatAm archives discussions between Latin Americanist historians; it also has recommended podcasts links
The New Books Network is worth checking out, for Latin American Studies but also try a search pairing "Latin American" with any of the subject areas, for instance History, Anthropology, or Science and Technology
They also have New Books en Español.
The CIA "World Factbook" has basic facts about most countries in the world
LANIC at the University of Texas is still a good clearinghouse especially of Latin American periodicals, despite no longer being supported as of 2015. Pick a region then a country to explore newspapers, civil and governmental organizations, universities, etc; here is an example for Paraguay
Also check out the Benson Latin American Collection's Digital Initiatives
And don't forget the links on the weekly homepages of this class website, and also my Pinboard.