Although The Mainsheet covered all twenty republics, its focus was primarily on South America.
In 1980, under the editorship of Bernard Davies, The Central American Newsletter was launched as a sister publication to The Mainsheet. Bernard edited until his death in 1985 when Mike Birks took over the helm.
The CAN ran for twenty years, the final 81st issue being published in October 2000.
All the Central American countries are represented but Costa Rican, Nicaraguan and Honduran collectors will especially find much of interest.
It is worth mentioning that both The Mainsheet and CAN came with indexes for ease of reference. Again, highly recommended.
Is it still available? Preferably as PDF or electronic document. I would love to add to my Zotero online Latin America resources.
It was never digitized to the best of my knowledge and is rarely available in hard copy. I happen to have a complete run on eBay at the moment but they do not appear very often.
The Central American Newsletter was never digitised by me and I no longer have my original copies. It was prepared pre-computer on an electronic typewriter and the originals were not kept either.
Mike Birks