The governments of ten South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia,Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela) varywidely in the quantity and quality of free legal information each offers toits citizens. Each country has made a significant effort in providing basiclegal texts, such as codes, laws and decrees, in a systematic, searchable,and reliable database. Jurisprudence of the courts, whose significancevaries widely among these countries steeped in the civil law tradition, isoften less accessible. Some countries have more means and betterinfrastructure than others which, naturally, is reflected in the quality ofthe databases, search engines, and archives.