The Competition Superintendence (CS) launched the booklet in Braille “Let´s Learn about Competition”, in order to divulge the benefits of competition to the population with visual impairment in the country, with the purpose to comply with, regarding information, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

1. Press Release C. 16-10
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El Salvador, May 19 , 2010.
CS Launched Booklet in Braille about Competition
The Competition Superintendence (CS) launched the booklet in Braille “Let´s Learn about
Competition”, in order to divulge the benefits of competition to the population with visual
impairment in the country, with the purpose to comply with, regarding information, the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Said booklet will be available in
Culture Houses and public and private libraries in El Salvador.
The CS launched today the basic competition booklet in Braille titled: “Let´s Learn
“Our purpose is to about Competition”. Sixty copies of the aforementioned booklet will be made
promote a competition available to the population with visual impairment through public libraries, libraries
culture in society. Our of public and private universities, as well as through Culture Houses around the
duty as a public country.
institution is to
eliminate the access The initiative resulted from the Accessible Communication Events carried out by
barriers to information the National Council of Integral Attention to the Disabled Person (in Spanish,
and knowledge in favor Consejo Nacional de Atención Integral a la Persona con Discapacidad), hereinafter
of the population with CONAIPD, an institution that seeks to eliminate the access barriers to information
disabilities in the and communication to disabled persons and comply with the right of information of
country”, asserted Jose this part of the population.
Enrique Argumedo,
Competition In this sense, the Secretariat of Culture (in Spanish, Secretaría de Cultura) will
Superintendent. support the CS through the National Department of Cultural Development Spaces,
(in Spanish, Dirección Nacional de Espacios de Desarrollo Cultural) in the
distribution of said booklets in 15 public libraries and 16 Culture Houses in the 14 provinces of El Salvador.
The booklet “Let´s Learn about Competition”, is an an easily comprehensive
“We congratulate the document containing everyday life examples. Said booklet summarizes how the
Competition market works, the attributions of the CS, as well as general information of the
Superintendence for Competition Law, anticompetitive practices, mergers and acquisitions, and how to
the initiative of file complaints before de CS, amongst others.
complying with the
right of information in According the data from the National Registry of Physical Persons (in Spanish,
favor of disabled Registro Nacional de Personas Naturales), hereinafter RNPN, up to July 2009,
persons, which said institution had 253,222 persons, over 18 years old, with disabilities registered,
becomes a challenge 78,972 of them are visually impaired.
and an example for the
rest of public “The CS has taken an important step by making this booklet available to the
institutions of the population with disabilities in the country, benefiting more than 70 thousand
country to comply with persons. All of them are consumers and probably many are entrepreneurers who
the rights of disabled must know the advantages of competition. Our duty as a public institution is to
persons”, insured eliminate the access barriers to information and knowledge in favor of the
Lourdes de Morales, population with disabilities in the country”, informed Jose Enrique Argumedo,
CEO of CONAIPD. Competition Superintendent.
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2. Places where the booklet will be available
Culture Houses in the following provinces of El Salvador: Santa Ana, Ahuachapán, Sonsonate, La Libertad,
Chalatenango, San Vicente, Usulután, San Miguel, La Unión, Cuscatlán, La Paz, Cabañas, Morazán, San
Salvador.
Public Libraries in El Salvador: Biblioteca Nacional “David Granadino”, Santa Ana; “Chapultepec”, San
Salvador; “Profa. Juana Castro de Serrano”, San Martín, San Salvador; “Prof. Saúl Flores”, Zacatecoluca, La
Paz; “Prof. Ceferino Lobo”, San Miguel, San Miguel; “Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Antiguo Cuscatlán”, La
Libertad; “Prof. Nicolás de la Cruz”, Santiago Texacuangos, San Salvador; “Antonio Blandón Ramírez”, Usulután,
Usulután; “José Napoleón Rodríguez”, San Vicente, San Vicente; “Alfredo Espino”, Ahuachapán, Ahuachapán;
“Prof. Jorge Buenaventura Laínez”, Cojutepeque, Cuscatlán; San Francisco Gotera, Morazán; “Alejandro Coto”,
Suchitoto; Cuscatlán; “Francisco Contreras Betancourt”, Sonsonate, Sonsonate.
Universities in El Salvador: Universidad de El Salvador, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas,
Universidad Salvadoreña Alberto Masferrer, Universidad Autónoma de Santa Ana, Universidad Católica de
Occidente, Universidad de Oriente, Universidad Cristiana de Asambleas de Dios, Universidad Don Bosco,
Universidad Doctor José Matías Delgado, Universidad Francisco Gavidia, Universidad Tecnológica de El
Salvador, Universidad Andrés Bello, Universidad Evangélica, Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Oscar
Arnulfo Romero, Universidad Nueva San Salvador, Universidad Pedagógica de El Salvador, Universidad Técnica
Latinoamericana, Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Albert Einstein, Universidad Modular
Abierta, Universidad Capitán General Gerardo Barrios, Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera.
In addition to the aforementioned institutions, the following Salvadoran organisms will also have a copy of said
booklet: Secretariat of Culture (in Spanish, Secretaría de Cultura); CONAIPD; “Eugenia de Dueñas"
Rehabilitation Center for the Visually Impaired (in Spanish, Centro de Rehabilitación de Ciegos “Eugenia de
Dueñas); National Association for the Salvadoran Visually Impaired (in Spanish, Asociación Nacional de Ciegos
Salvadoreños); and, the School of the Visually Impaired (in Spanish, Escuela de Ciegos).
Articles complied with of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:
Article 21
Freedom of expression and opinion, and access to information
“States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities can exercise the right
to freedom of expression and opinion, including the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas on
an equal basis with others and through all forms of communication of their choice, as defined in article 2 of the
present Convention, including by:”.
Article 2
Definitions
Accessible communication for persons with disabilities “includes languages, display of text, Braille, tactile
communication, large print, accessible multimedia, as well as written, audio, plain-language, human-reader and
augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, including accessible information and
communication technology; language includes spoken and signed languages and other forms of non spoken
languages”, Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Edificio Madreselva, 1er Nivel, Calzada El Almendro y 1ª Ave. El Espino, Urb. Madreselva, Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador.
E-mail: contacto@sc.gob.sv - www.sc.gob.sv