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OAS/CIDI Providing Latin American Educational and Research Institutions Unlimited Access to LADB Services

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Project Description

In May 1999 The Organization of American States (OAS) Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) funded an extension of LADB's NSEP project to Latin American institutions through the first trimester of the year 2000. The National Security Education Program (NSEP) funded LADB for one year to provide free subscriptions to its archive and news bulletins to teaching and research institutions in the United States. The purpose is to increase the information dissemination about Latin America throughout this country. The OAS/CIDI project pays for Latin American institutional subscriptions for the same services. If your Latin American research institution is interested in a free subscription as part of the OAS collaboration please contact LADB.

To promote cooperation under CIDI, member states support activities to strengthen hemispheric policy dialogue, to broaden the exchange of knowledge and experience in priority areas of development, and to facilitate joint and complementary action by and between countries and their institutions, as well as the international community. By offering Latin American research and educational institutions access to the same information that is being given to U.S. schools and libraries, the exchange of knowledge is facilitated.

The Latin America Data Base (LADB) at the University of New Mexico, a widely respected on-line news and information service, has been writing and delivering news and analysis about Latin America via the Internet since 1986. Respected for its balanced reporting, LADB offers researchers and teachers the information about the region in context (stories refer to previously published related articles in the LADB archives), and citing the news sources for verifiability. LADB uses a wide variety of source materials (both Spanish-language news sources, and English) to provide balanced and comprehensive coverage of every story. LADB's news is available by e-mail and in a very easy search-and-retrieve Web environment.