“La Convención Azul” first edition in Latin America left room to debate the quality of regulatory frameworks and contrasted the path of regulating by decree driven by the Argentine government against the decision of other right-wing governments, such as Mexican, Brazilian and Colombian, to think about a comprehensive reform for the ICT sector.

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