Tag: Chile

Aug 03 2010

Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Politics, World

Chilean Protest Murals

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On that same SALALM panel titled “Documenting in Times of Adversity, Survival and Hope” my friend Lynn Shirey presented on a newly acquired collection of slides by photographer Andrés Romero...

Feb 07 2010

Americas, Book Reviews, Books, Latin America, Politics, World

Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America by Chesa Boudin

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Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America by Chesa Boudin My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews I picked up this book because of the title;...

Oct 28 2009

Americas, Archives, Latin America, Manuscripts, Photographs, Politics, World

Archivo Chile is a site that gathers information in all formats primarily about Chile’s social/popular movements, and secondarily about Latin America. The site also emphases human rights, and leftist politics....

Apr 15 2008

Digital, Libraries, Open Access, World

Memoria Chilena

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Memoria Chilena is a project under Chile’s DIBAM (Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos) to help gather book, photographs, music and other works which have helped form national identity. A...

Feb 21 2008

Archives, Databases, Europe, Libraries, Manuscripts, World

Looted Cultural Goods

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This morning the New York Times had an article about two parallel art exhibits displaying art looted during WWII. The exhibit is a collaboration between France and Israel in aims...

Nov 07 2007

Libraries, National Libraries, World

Chile Returns Plundered Books

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In a gesture of good faith, the Chilean government has returned close to 4,000 books that were plundered from the Peruvian National library back in 1881 during the War of...

Oct 29 2007

Women, World

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

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Argentina made history yesterday by electing their first woman president! Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, wife of the current president Nestor Kirchner, and former senator for Buenos Aires won a solid...

Apr 25 2007

Women, World

Mexico City Legalizes Abortion

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Mexico seems to be paving the way for social reforms in Latin America. In January the country legalized same sex civil unions, and today they have legalized abortion in the...