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Sunday, February 1st, 2009Argentina’s Secretary of Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development (SAyDS), Homero Bibiloni, recently met with the Mining Secretary, Jorge Mayoral, to discuss joint efforts to make mining in that country more environmentally sustainable. As well they should: in recent months the environmental reputation of the nation’s mining sector has taken a pounding. Recently the provinces of […]
Buenos Aires Bans Non-Biodegradable Plastic Bags
Saturday, September 13th, 2008The Province of Buenos Aires (PBA) just became the latest Latin American jurisdiction to prohibit retailers from offering non-biodegradable plastic carry bags. The provincial government is trumpeting the new law as one banning polyethylene (PE) and other plastic carry bags, but a careful reading of the law shows that it only bans non-biodegradable plastic bags. […]
Loan for Environmental Decontamination in Argentine Mining Sector
Friday, August 1st, 2008From the World Bank: World Bank Approves US$30 Million for Environmental Decontamination in Mining Sector The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$30 million loan to support an environmental program designed to assist the Government of Argentina, specifically the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), to meet its legal obligations to remediate closed […]
Digitizing the Fight Against Chagas
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008The newspaper La Nacion had an interesting report last week about Argentina’s fight against Chagas disease. The San Luis-based Universidad de La Punta (ULP) organized a meeting of 40 health officials from 10 provinces concerned with Chagas control with an eye to digitizing sanitary surveillance and control of the disease. Chagas disease is a serious, […]
World No-Tobacco Day 2008 in LAC: PAHO Honors Those Making a Difference
Saturday, June 7th, 2008From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): World No Tobacco Day 2008 Observed with Awards in the Americas World No Tobacco Day is being observed May 31 with a focus on tobacco marketing, and awards in recognition of outstanding contributions to tobacco control. The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to protect the world’s […]
Catamarca & Mendoza Gain New Anti-Tobacco Laws
Friday, October 12th, 2007Two more Argentine provinces recently passed tobacco control laws, bringing to five the number of provinces (added to Córdoba, Santa Fe and Tucumán) plus the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) that have adopted tough "smoke-free environment" laws, and leading many Argentines to question why the national legislature remains unable to do the same. After […]
Inequities in Water and Sanitation Services in Argentina
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Not too long ago an Argentine think tank, the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimento – CIPPEC), released a report* analyzing the provision of potable water and sanitation services within Argentina. The CIPPEC analysis demonstrates, to my mind, […]
The Distribution of Cancer in Argentina
Monday, August 13th, 2007When you read my post last week about colon cancer rates rising in Buenos Aires Province (PBA), did you wonder what the rates are for other types of cancer in the rest of Argentina? I did (but then, I am curious like that). So I went hunting for the information. It appears that most Argentine […]
Overview of Consumer Authorities in LAC
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Classifying the National Entities Putting aside for the moment the complex and unique Brazilian system (discussed below), are there distinctive ways LAC nations organize who is charge of setting consumer protection policy and defending consumer interests? I have yet to see anyone else suggest a typology for consumer entities (in LAC or elsewhere), so here’s […]
Overview of Consumer Law in LAC
Thursday, May 17th, 2007The Broad Influences If you had looked around LAC in the early 1980s, you would have been hard pressed to find a country with a framework consumer protection law, code, statute or regulation (I believe only Colombia had a simple one). Yes, many had market authorization laws, regulations, Sanitary Codes or special product -based codes […]