On Wednesday, the Board of Governors of the International Development Bank (IDB) elected their new president. As predicted, Luis Alberto Moreno, the present Colombian ambassador to the United States, won the position, beating out the most highly qualified candidate, Brazilian …
Monthly Archive: July 2005
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In a Standoff with the Brazilian Government over AIDS Medications, Multinational Pharmaceutical Company Backs Down
On June 24, Brazil issued an ultimatum to the Illinois-based pharmaceutical corporation Abbott Laboratories that it must lower the price it charged for the AIDS medication Kaletra, or the government would move to break the patent and manufacture the drug …
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Who’s Afraid of the Haitian Media?
One long day in Pointe Noire, on my vacation from volunteer work in the forest, the Congolese painter Trigo Piula and I sat arguing in his jumbled studio about whether there is a spiritual element to canvasses. There was little …
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Versión en Español: El Comienzo del Fin de una Estrategia Coherente NorteAmericana contra las Drogas
Con la intención de resolver parte del conflicto narcotráfico que ha plagado a Colombia por décadas, el Presidente Álvaro Uribe y la administración de George W. Bush han aceptado las demandas del grupo paramilitar conocido como las Autodefensas Unidas de …
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The Beginning of the End to a Coherent U.S. Drug Strategy
In an effort to resolve a part of Colombia’s decades-old drug and anti-government conflicts, President Álvaro Uribe and the Bush administration have yielded to the demands of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group, thus discrediting their war on …
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