N° 62 – July 2008
Monthly Electronic Newsletter of Sertox (Latin-American Portal of Toxicology) – Year 5

1) Happy Inti Raymi: "Despite two thousand years of the Gregorian calendar, native peoples celebrate a new year based on another time. An ancient rite, part of history and Latin American identity that resisted the Christianization and genocide to the people indigenous. The June 21 is celebrated the Inti Raymi, the main party of the Inca empire before the arrival of the Spaniards (photo), which caused a cut in the free development of a culture. The festivities took place during the winter solstice, time where the sun is at the point farthest from ecuador "(See in Spanish complete text and image) (See article in English).  Sertox celebrate this with the logo of the newsletter 2) On June 26, 2008 was celebrated the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (see). See also the report on "drug use in six Latin American countries in focus" and World Drug Report 2008, the UNODC flagship publication. 3) The National Security Council has designated June 2008 National Safety Month, which focuses on "The Overdose Epidemic",  Accidental poisoning deaths have more than tripled in the United States over the past 20 years, making poisoning the nation’s second-leading cause of unintentional deaths, after motor-vehicle crashes  (See). Despite these memorable dates, June 2008 is a month to forget in Argentina because there were many deaths from carbon monoxide (CO). (See in Spanish). See also related editorial of Newslwtter Nº 61: The endless story: Carbon monoxide’ poisoning. During this month we climb to our own site a monograph (Comments on the Promotion of addiction in the media) that is useful for explaining the editorial line of our site and clarify our participation in mass media (only available in Spanish). The growth in visits to our site in the first half of 2008 was very interesting (see).After Argentina (1),   for  first time in jJune, the second country where people are visiting us was the U.S. moving to Mexico (3rd) and Spain (4th). One of two: either there are more and more people who speak Spanish there or updating our site in English determines more visitors from that language (This could also be the case that Germany is 10 th in the Top Ten). There are more stories of Sertox and Toxicology to see. That is, as we happened lately, this is an issue fraught with news that we hope enjoy it. Until the next issue. JCP