Sunday, August 12, 2007

After Some Hesitation Argentina Moves August 17 Public Holiday To Following Monday

Sources: Actualidad Misiones and Argentina public holidays. After some marked hesitation during the months of June and July, the government of Argentina finally decided to move the commemoration of the death of General San Martín public holiday (Muerte del general Don José de San Martín) to the following Monday, as has been the recent practice, under law 24.445.

Analysis:
This is one more case of the growing feeling among Latin American legislators that religious and historical/patriotic public holidays should be observed on the actual date that they commemorate, and not be move to the nearest Monday as has been the tradition in Latin America in the last few decades. The Q++ Studio research team is adding this public holiday to the list of public holidays for which we will be monitoring new laws especially for updates.