Dear Congresswoman di Tullio, Congressman Basterra, Counselor Barletta, Congressman Cabandié, and Others: Although I had hoped to learn about the progress in a matter dear to me – and one which I suppose is very dear to all of you, too (maybe even more so than for me) – I believe the door has been shut on me by you, for me to learn about the Victory Front’s (FpV) effort to get effective legislation protecting the vulnerable of this country from abusive pesticide-spraying. In a letter to Argentina’s president in mid-Februrary, I expressed my gratitude to the Nation of Argentina for the health care I have received: http://carrascocompass.com/?p=20. It had been in this spirit of thanks, combined with the conviction I thought I felt from certain people – in a companionship-in-struggle way – from some of the FpV community center at M.T. Alvear and Paraná, which initially helped me enjoy a sense of cooperation within the governing party, so to thereby understand something about bringing important legislation forward, to save people from harmful pesticide use, (I just wanted to help, and felt the door had been open for me to do so.) To the point: Last month, I realized nobody from the offices responsible were replying to me anymore, and, quite by coincidence, about the same time, I went to see a documentary about Dr. Ernesto (“Che”) Guevara’s death (“De Sus Queridas Presencias – Una Película Sobre La Guerrilla del Che en Bolivia”), with interviews of his Bolivian comrades, at the Cine Gaumont – which is only a few doors away from the “Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria” (INTA)...
Atención: Sra. Presidente de la Nación Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Asunto: Huelga de hambre y medicinas de un ciudadano argentino estadounidense en Plaza de Mayo a comenzar el día Jueves 13 de Febrero. Soy un ciudadano argentino norteamericano viviendo aquí desde hace cerca de 10 años. Estoy muy agradecido por los remedios que recibo gratis debido a mi enfermedad crónica. Debido a mi preocupación por los problemas que los pesticidas generan en las poblaciones de Argentina, quisiera ser parte de la solución de este problema junto a Ud. Me tomé el trabajo de contratar a un graduado del Programa conjunto de las universidades de San Martín y Georgetown sobre Política Ambiental (quien terminó su tesis el año pasado sobre Implementación y Aplicación de la Ley de Bosques de 2007).Tratare de reducir *algo del papel en pocos puntos. 1. Al parecer, de acuerdo con el autor, el **Proyecto de Ley de la Sociedad Rural de noviembre del año 2013 es insuficiente al momento de tratar el problema crucial de las fumigaciones cerca de zonas pobladas y; 2. Según el autor, aparentemente el Proyecto de Ley que la Sociedad Rural presenta tampoco aborda la tensión sistémica entre las autoridades de gobierno que se derivan de los conflictos inherentes por la interpretación de los Artículos 41 y 124 de la Constitución Nacional. Evidentemente la implementación y aplicación se ve obstaculizada en su concreción si las autoridades municipales y federales no comprenden qué roles deben cumplir. Recientemente, tuve la gran oportunidad de conversar con una ex funcionaria del área de la *** Procuraduría General del Estado de California que...
I have both United States and Argentine citizenship and I have been living here for almost 10 years. I am grateful for the medicine I have been receiving free to treat a chronic illness. Owing to my concern over the problems which pesticides generate for the people of Argentina, I would like to be part of the solution along with you. *I have taken the trouble to contract an environmental studies graduate student from the joint programme of San Martín and Georgetown Universities (who submitted his thesis last year on the “Implementation and Application of the Forestry Law of 2007”). According to him, the **Rural Society Bill of November, 2013, is insufficient for the crucial problem of fumigation near populated zones nor does it tackle the systemic tension between the government authorities deriving from the conflicts inherent to the interpretation of Articles 41 and 124 of the National Constitution. Evidently the implementation and application are blocked if the municipal and federal authorities do not understand their roles. Recently I had the good fortune to talk to an ex-official of the ***California Attorney-General’s Office who was in charge of the use of pesticides. In California (the most important agricultural state in the US with markedly progressive politics), all pesticides must be registered and all workers handling them must be trained, pass exams and be registered. California also has an unusual but apparently effective system (shades of Price Watch) whereby farmers are obliged to report to the government any visible infringement on nearby fields — some of them do co-operate with the government and the system has worked well until now,...
