Should fireworks be banned?
El Salvador's government is considering a ban on the production and sale of fireworks. There were a reported 140 people who had to be treated in hospitals for burns caused by fireworks between December 24 and January 1, down 30% from the year before. As a ban on the fireworks is considered, El Faro placed on its website a photo gallery of stark images of many victims.
An article in ContraPunto highlights the difficult decision. According to the article, there are at least 269 shops making fireworks throughout the country. The Association of Salvadoran Fireworks Producers estimates that some 400,000 persons in the country who receive some income from the production and sale of fireworks. In a country with a scarcity of jobs, eliminating an industry, even one with the dangers of fireworks, is not attractive.
An article in ContraPunto highlights the difficult decision. According to the article, there are at least 269 shops making fireworks throughout the country. The Association of Salvadoran Fireworks Producers estimates that some 400,000 persons in the country who receive some income from the production and sale of fireworks. In a country with a scarcity of jobs, eliminating an industry, even one with the dangers of fireworks, is not attractive.
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Comments
If fireworks are to be produced in El Salvador, it should be done by adults in factories that are regularly inspected to insure safety. This would make them more expensive, of course.
seeing always casualties
and working on getting them banned on the the beach here in Myrtle Beach
they should be banned
You know what my father always did: he never bought firecrackers nor high-powered pyrotechnics for us. I think he is a smart man and a great parent.
You cannot legislate common sense. It's a slippery slope to totalitarism. If you abridge fireworks, maybe you should also ban trans-fats (bye pupusas!). While you are at it, why not ban sugar? (avoid the epidemic of diabetes).
Come to think of it, TV should be banned. I mean, kids end up wasting their lives in front of stupid Mexican shows!
Tell you what: let's ban candy, skateboards, bikes, and marbles. All of these have caused child deaths!
I say let's get it over and see if the Ruskies can revive Stalin and ship him over. He'll eliminate all of those improductive and dangerous activities and put us to work.
viva chalate!!!
I don't see how they could monitor it though. There are bigger fish to fry in ES. And it's not largely affecting the kids in the Western suburbs of ES, so people can continue to make the excuse that it's their faults for not having "common sense."
that of which there is just not much of in Latinolandia
just how it is, the macho culture from Spain
maybe 200 more years
ok, i retract
banned fireworks 'except ' for xmas time
[but has anyone else seen the foot deep paper in the capital streets of these countries December 26th?]
at least scoop it up and compost it!
after 35 years in business and travels there
sometimes one gets tired of the 'get the gringo' just a cultural thing no disrespect
'fix it when it breaks is quite strong evidence of 'no sentido comun'
we put a man on the moon, not Latinolandia
anyway
read the emergency room stats after xmas in ES
here they are banned mostly, forest fires, etc,burned buildings, trash on the beach small bits of plastic everywhere!
violators are severely punished here even in Myrtle Beach with a gazillion gd fireworks store
they are sold for folks to return home and set off in their yards, sans local ordinances
but no more on the beach
and the daily shows at the Pavilion are under professional supervision
not 10 yo's setting of 'silbaras'
hate those things
except July 4th
one day to set off this crap, remembrances of war
invented by Chinese to aggravate and drive away demons
There will always be news about burnt fingers do to the density of the population.
El Visitador and Hodad26 are at least consistent in both instances. E-V would permit gold mines and fireworks factories and Hodad26 would ban them both.
i juts hurts to see the stats on kids at emergency clinics the day after xmas
on someone's private land,home etc. and NOT in the streets
in the 80's in Central America they were also used to act as cover for small arms fire in certain situations in Guatemala and CR and Nicaragua borders I know
[bad trip down bummer
fuck you very much]
as far as gold mines, only a few jobs, is all vs the degradation again common sense
you want polluted waters for years and birth defects etc
I would think not
two different issues
fireworks factories REGULATED and not near any houses
and certainly NOT under age employees
gold mines for nada!
I also believe that the Government should enforce other rules, and laws where children and other teenages should only be handling fireworks under adult supervision. This will insure that there is more safety.