This is a very serious study
With data of the FDA and others
The most important drugs in Public Health
The Crucial Generics Everywhere
Pschiatry, Blood Pressure, Heart disease, etc ...





Big Pharmaceuticals are pushing like mad for the signing of the Andean FTA

Big Pharma spends at least 20 times more money than "Big Sugar" in lobbying the U. S. Congress for Tradre Agreements.

They want it now now now in November 2005

Microsoft, IBM, HP and all other big business want it desperately to push patents and property rights to the last extremes.

There will be obstacles to Generic Drugs ( Whose patents have expired everywhere : USA, Colombia, WTO, etc ...) They want to prolong patents many years more than in the USA or WTO.

Only problem is that Generic Drugs are 10 times costlier in the USA than in Colombia.

There is an article about serious studies of the U. S. FDA and others that show horrible price differences. Some important drugs are 32 times costlier in the USA than the Colombian version.

The U. S. Labs want to stop that price differential and rise the price of drugs to the sky.

There is a serious study here ( Unfortunately in Spanish ). There are many details about specific drugs that save lives.


See article here :


http://www.elcolombiano.terra.com.co/Ba ... dSeccion=6



The Newspaper is extremely conservative and PRO US ( zero communism or antiamericanism )

The author RUDOLF HOMMES is very PRO US in everything, has worked a lot in the USA for World Bank and International Corporations and has been Secretary or Minister of Economy for Colombia.

He is not suspect of Anti Americanism but of Excessive fondness and passion for the USA against the interests of Colombia in everything, including the Andean FTA. Probably lobbying for US Business.

He helps International business to buy Colombian Business.

And yet he says that the Andean FTA could cause immense harm to the Colombian poor and old.


Vicente Duque