MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'colombia'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:30:43 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4975825&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fs2-Usb210eI%2F By Sallie JamesSen. Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,  Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and the White House have just announced that they have made a deal to extend Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA, the program that extends extra unemployment and health care benefits to workers who lose their jobs because of globalization) until 2013, as part of a broader deal that would see passage of the three outstanding preferential trade agreements with Korea, Colombia, and Panama. The extension of TAA would be included in the legislation to implement the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, “improved” (i.e., made less liberalizing) by the administration in December. Interestingly and alarmingly, because implementing the FTAs... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4975825 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:17:38 +0100 4975825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4966114&cid=t_131340_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2011%2F06%2F24%2Fcolombia-7%2F Buenaventura, Colombia – Old bridge providing access to houses built on piles. In the port city of Buenaventura, 250 houses built on piles in the Miramar neighborhood lacked running water because the water company, Hidropacífico, was not prepared to deliver water via an above-ground distribution system. With the high level of skin infections and gastric disease related to poor-quality water, in late 2009 MSF decided to launch a water and sanitation project. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4966114 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:54:34 +0100 4966114 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4911457&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvV-HK1K8LpU%2F By Daniel GriswoldDo trade agreements promote trade? The answer appears to be yes. In a new Cato Free Trade Bulletin released today, I examine the record of trade agreements the United States has signed with 14 other nations during the past decade. The impact of those agreements on U.S. trade is a timely subject because Congress may soon consider pending free-trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. Opponents of such deals often argue that they open the U.S. economy to unfair competition from low-wage countries, displacing U.S. manufacturing. Advocates argue the agreements do open the U.S. market further to imports, but they open markets abroad even wider for U.S. exports. Based on actual post-agreement trade flows, I found that both total imports and exports with th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4911457 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:22:16 +0100 4911457 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4684270&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FpKlx44gYfOU%2F By Daniel GriswoldTo no great surprise, the Obama administration announced today that it has cut a deal with the government of Colombia to address concerns about labor protections and to finally move toward enacting the long-stalled free-trade agreement between our two countries. This is welcome news for trade expansion and for strengthening our ties to a key Latin American ally. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is expected to arrive later this week in Washington to cement the deal. In exchange for the agreement, Colombia has reportedly agreed to expand its efforts to protect union members from violence and to more vigorously prosecute those responsible. As my Cato colleague Juan Carlos Hidalgo and I documented in a Cato study earlier this year, concerns about labor protections were ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4684270 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:54:59 +0100 4684270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4626789&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FkXNs6nxl5bY%2F By Juan Carlos HidalgoAs expected, President Obama’s speech on Latin America, given on Monday in Santiago, Chile, was full of rhetoric but short of substance. He briefly mentioned the willingness of his administration to “move forward” with the pending free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama, but didn’t say when he’s submitting them for a vote in Congress. He recognized (again) that drug consumption in the U.S. is fueling drug violence in Mexico and Central America, but stayed away from saying how his more-of-the-same policies will change anything. Obama’s only tangible pledge was the announcement that his administration will work to increase the number of Latin American students in the U.S. to 100,000. This is laudable, but still unambitious. According to the Institute ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4626789 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:21:37 +0100 4626789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4610796&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FIdpiqIBq5kE%2F By Juan Carlos HidalgoAs Ted Carpenter notes below, President Obama is departing on an important trip to Latin America. The countries that he will visit exemplify the macroeconomic stability and advancement of democratic institutions now found in much of the region. Brazil, by far the largest Latin American economy, has enjoyed almost a decade of sound growth and poverty reduction. Chile is the most developed country in the region thanks to decades of economic liberalization, a process that has also made it Latin America’s most mature democracy. And El Salvador is undergoing a delicate period in its transition to becoming a full-fledged democracy with its first left-of-center president since the end of the civil war in 1992. In an era when most Latin American nations are moving in the... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4610796 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:54:10 +0100 4610796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4592364&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FlnxmyDFTQpw%2F By George Scoville Still think the War on Drugs is a good idea, or that it's working? Decreases in cocaine production in Colombia have been almost fully offset by increases in Peru and Bolivia. Why is nobody talking about the right of Wisconsin taxpayers to not deal with unions? "If you're the rare bird who favors limited government at home and abroad, you can hardly expect good news from a poll of this generation's Tracy Flicks." (Maybe not.) NPR and PBS are using taxpayer dollars to lobby for... more taxpayer dollars. But that's hardly a new game in Washington. Afghanistan: nation-building on crack. Saying no to a no-fly zone over Libya should be a no-brainer: Tuesday Links is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4592364 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:47:16 +0100 4592364 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4489640&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FiK2_fWLEruI%2F By Juan Carlos HidalgoDuring a recent Congressional hearing on President Obama’s trade agenda, Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) stated his continued objections to the FTA with Colombia: “Union worker violence in Colombia remains unacceptably high - if not the highest in the world. Limited progress is being made in the investigation and prosecution of those responsible. Additionally, reports indicate that threats against union workers and others have increased, and there has been little concrete action today to pursue these cases.” [Emphasis added]. Levin warned that, despite signs of a more constructive approach to this issue from Colombia's new president Juan Manuel Santos, “The only adequate measuring stick is progress on the ground.” Rep. Levin should take a look at the Free Trade ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4489640 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:22:44 +0100 4489640 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4489653&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxUedIf_wd8k%2F By Daniel GriswoldOur friends in Colombia have been waiting more than four years for the U.S. government to consider a pending free-trade agreement between our two countries. According to an interview this week with Colombia’s ambassador to the United States, Gabriel Silva, Colombians are “losing patience” with their American ally. The frustration in Colombia is understandable. The agreement was signed in November 2006, but it has been locked in the cupboard since then by labor unions and their congressional allies who claim the Colombian government has not done enough to curb violence in that country against union members. My Cato colleague Juan Carlos Hidalgo and I examine the agreement and the claims against it in a new Cato Free Trade Bulletin, "Trade Agreement Would Promote U.S.... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4489653 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:24:00 +0100 4489653 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4436943&cid=t_131340_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F0k6J1WAEXRY%2F And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. This means, of course, that we can begin daydreaming about weekend activities. Our agenda includes taking the shortest of short people to the bowling alley, watching a big soccer match from the UK with short person No. 2 and dining out with Mrs. Pharmalot, not necessarily in that order. What about you? Catch up on some reading, perhaps, or maybe take in a good movie? What about visiting the hardware store to replace your worn out shovel? Whatever you do, have a good time and be safe. Meanwhile, here are some tidbits. See you soon… Hedge Fund Wants Actelion CEO To Quit (Reuters) Vanda’s Vanapt Falls Flat (The Street) Pfizer Employees In Manila Upset Over Labor Negotiations (Bulatlat) MicroChips Starts First Clinical Trial I... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4436943 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:53:04 +0100 4436943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4214083&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FuE1begVYw_o%2F By Sallie JamesMary Anastasia O’Grady has an excellent article in today’s Wall Street Journal on the Obama administration’s failure to push the U.S.-Colombia preferential trade agreement.  She rightly points out that the terms of the agreement should be especially favorable to mercantalists, since the agreement would see no reductions in the tariffs the United States places on Colombian goods — most of which already enter duty-free under the terms of the Andean Trade Preference Act — but will oblige Colombia to open its markets to those U.S. exports the administration is always banging on about. More on the Colombia FTA from Cato analysts here and here. O’Grady on the US-Colombia FTA is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4214083 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:40:01 +0100 4214083 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4133679&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FWvPLjnK5VpY%2F By Daniel GriswoldOne of the many implications of yesterday’s election is that the new Congress will likely be more friendly toward trade-expanding agreements and less inclined to raise trade barriers. Trade was not a deciding factor in the election, despite efforts by a number of incumbent Democrats to make it so. Many House and Senate contests were peppered with ads accusing an opponent of favoring trade agreements that gave away U.S. jobs to China. It was a stock line in President Obama’s stump speeches that Republicans favored tax breaks for U.S. companies that ship jobs overseas (a charge I dismantled in an op-ed last week). Yet on Election Day the trade-skeptical rhetoric and ads did not save Democratic seats. Republicans Pat Toomey, Rob Portman, and Mark Kirk all won Senate seat... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4133679 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:11:25 +0100 4133679 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3613464&cid=t_131340_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2010%2F05%2F31%2Fcolombia-6%2F Tame, Arauca region – April 2010 Father and son at indigenous community of Genareros in the outskirts of Tame, the capital of Arauca region. This was the first community to receive Chagas treatment. Out of 97 blood samples taken from children between nine months and 18 years old, 11 were found to have the disease. Chagas disease is endemic in most Latin American countries. It is caused by the trypanosoma cruzi parasite and transmitted mainly by the ‘kissing bug’, a blood-sucking insect common in rural areas and city outskirts where people live in adobe houses made of clay and straw. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3613464 Mon, 31 May 2010 08:55:40 +0100 3613464 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3607814&cid=t_131340_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FEr0E-HGqV_8%2F The Free Trade Agreements being negotiated between the US and other nations has come in for some criticism by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), which is a group body of independent experts that is charged with monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by participating nations. And in a new report, the CECSR notes that the intellectual property obligations included in the Free Trade Agreement between the US and Colombia may hurt access to medicines and recommends a revision of the IP provisions. “The Committee is concerned that bilateral and multilateral trade agreements signed by (Colombia) may affect the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, in particular of disadvantaged and marginali... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3607814 Fri, 28 May 2010 12:30:24 +0100 3607814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3528845&cid=t_131340_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2010%2F05%2F04%2Fcolombia-5%2F Chocò, Colombia – April 7, 2010 16-year old Daniela in labour pain before her first delivery. The baby’s farther is not around, but her mother has come to assist her during the birth. They live together about three hours by public transport from the hospital. After a long an exhausting delivery she had a healthy girl. High maternal mortality rates in Chocò are almost three times as high as the Colombian average (194,7/100,000 born). This led MSF to start a project of sexual and reproductive healthcare in this poor Colombian region. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3528845 Tue, 04 May 2010 09:02:09 +0100 3528845 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3501517&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fn9GCbA_J_C0%2F By Juan Carlos HidalgoThe Washington Post had an interesting story a few days ago on poverty in Colombia, a country that is viewed by many as Washington’s closest ally in Latin America. Colombians are heading to the polls on May 30th to elect a new president, so we’ll be hearing more about that country and Alvaro Uribe’s legacy as president in the upcoming weeks. Uribe has been credited—rightly so—with making Colombia more secure. Crime rates have fallen dramatically since he took office in 2002, right-wing paramilitaries have been disbanded (although many complain that most of them just moved into regular criminal activities), and the decades-old Marxist FARC guerrilla group, which not long ago threatened Colombia’s capital and main cities, has been dealt spectacular blows to ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3501517 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:56:18 +0100 3501517 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3023103&cid=t_131340_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fcl_3Rv3NzC8%2F Sunday marked the third anniversary of the signing of a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia. It is an embarrassment to our great nation that this agreement with an important Latin American ally still sits on the shelf three years later, a victim of congressional trade politics. As my Cato colleague Juan Carlos Hidalgo and I argued in a 2008 Free Trade Bulletin, and as I wrote in a more recent op-ed, the FTA with Colombia is a win-win for Americans. It fully opens the Colombian market and its 44 million pro-American consumers to our exports, while deepening our ties with one of our most dependable allies in the Western Hemisphere. The AFL-CIO and other opponents of the agreement demand that Colombia further reduce violence against trade unionist before approval can b... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3023103 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:33:31 +0100 3023103 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2701460&cid=t_131340_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2009%2F08%2F14%2Fcolombia-4%2F Photo: Pieter Ten Hoopen Quibdo, Colombia - November 2004 11 year-old Lydia lives with her mother and three sisters and brothers in the shantytown Obrero in the outskirts of Quibdo. The father has left them. Their home is a shed of two times two meters. Lydia takes care of the children when their mother works as maid. None of the children own an identity card that entitles to health care. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2701460 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:52:17 +0100 2701460 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1802931&cid=t_131340_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F394626772%2F The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is stepping up an ad campaign against the drugmaker over the price of Kaletra, claiming Abbott charges Mexico five times more than other middle-income countries. The example cited - $5,400 a year in Mexico compared with $1,000 per year in Brazil for the second-line AIDS treatment. The ads are running in newspapers in Illinois, where Abbott is headquartered. “Abbott is once again living up to its terrible record on AIDS by abusing NAFTA’s patent protections to charge five times as much for Kaletra in Mexico as it does in other middle-income countries, a heartless business calculation that effectively makes this drug all but out of reach for nearly all those living with HIV/AIDS in Mexico,” Michael Weinstein, AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s preside... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1802931 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:55:48 +0100 1802931 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1686522&cid=t_131340_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F357716719%2F An international coalition of patient and public health advocacy groups has sent a letter to representatives of the Colombian government, endorsing a recent request by several Colombian civil society groups for an open compulsory license on Abbott’s Kaletra AIDS medicine. Kaletra currently costs the Colombian public sector about $1,683 per patient annually, and prices for private health organizations reach $4,449, according to the groups. Peru and Bolivia, by contrast, pay less than $800 for a generic version. Through a recent accord with the Clinton Foundation, prices in the region could fall to $550, and by issuing a compulsory license and allowing generics firms to compete with Kaletra, the Colombian government could save $1 million annually, the groups contend. The coalition issu... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1686522 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:06:31 +0100 1686522 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1098853&cid=t_131340_151_f&fid=35797&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewrecovery.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F12%2Fafghan-farmers-see-through-drug-war.html Recent U.S. initiatives to eradicate poppy fields in selected areas of Afghanistan, on the Colombian model, have met with growing resistance by Afghan farmers, according to a briefing paper by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (link):"The view that the government is willing to deepen the poverty of some of its rural population for the sake of a ban on opium poppy cultivation further alienates the rural population. The belief of many farmers that those enforcing the ban and eradicating their crop are themselves actively involved in the opium trade makes matters worse; so does the perception of widespread bribery and the sense that eradication targets the vulnerable and ignores the crops of those in positions of power and influence."Afghan farmers are seeing that the eradication e... New Recovery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1098853 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:04:00 +0100 1098853 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1097739&cid=t_131340_151_f&fid=35797&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewrecovery.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F12%2Fcia-up-to-its-old-tricks.html A tantalizing hint that the CIA is up to its old tricks (flying drugs from conflict zones) surfaced in the crash landing of a Gulfstream II business jet in Mexico Sept. 24.The Florida-based craft carried somewhere between three and six tons of powder cocaine, and either no heroin or up to one ton of heroin, depending on which estimates one believes.The flight originated in Colombia and was destined for Florida with a stopover in Cancun.Blogger FrostFireZoo.com matched the serial number of the craft to a plane used by the CIA on at least three occasions in the rendition of terrorism suspects from the U.S. to other countries to be tortured.A Mexican journal accused Mexican and U.S. political authorities of hypocrisy for waging a so-called "war on drugs" on the one hand, and being heavily inv... New Recovery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097739 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:58:00 +0100 1097739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=741453&cid=t_131340_135_f&fid=35263&url=http%3A%2F%2Fronhudson.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fguest-artist-farid-de-la-ossa-of.html My name is Farid De La Ossa. I am a 31 year old Colombian artist living in the US who was diagnosed with HIV 4 months ago. I received a message that said that you were collecting entries from people with HIV [for the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP)]. Attached there is a painting I just made on pansexuality and I wanted to share it with you because I thought you might want to publish it on your website. The name of this piece is "Pansexuality" and it is based on the opportunity I have had to get to know transgenders and people dealing with different kinds of gender combinations of relationships in my stay in San Francisco (US).With this art piece I just wanted to show solidarity towards transgenders and people in non-straight relationships. Below I am sending you a brief descri... 2sides2ron blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=741453 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:42:00 +0100 741453 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=730481&cid=t_131340_151_f&fid=35797&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewrecovery.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fstate-dept-drug-report-plays-politics.html The U.S. State Department report on the worldwide illegal drugs trade issued March 1 reads like a political propaganda bulletin more than a real research report. Regimes that have Bush administration support, such as Colombia and Afghanistan, get patted on the head for their alleged drug control efforts, while heads of state that give Bush hell (as in Venezuela, Bolivia, and others) get blasted for alleged complicity in the dirty business. The facts remain -- and the report admits -- that Colombia produces 90 per cent of the world supply of cocaine, and Afghanistan supplies more than 90 per cent of the heroin, and both are close allies of the Bush administration. Neither Colombia nor Afghanistan could achieve anything remotely near this kind of market domination without at least the activ... New Recovery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=730481 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:09:00 +0100 730481 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=730495&cid=t_131340_151_f&fid=35797&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewrecovery.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Fcolombia-minister-resigns-over-drug.html The foreign minister of Colombia resigned Monday as the government of President Álvaro Uribe, the Bush administration's closest ally in South America, struggled with a scandal that has disclosed ties between paramilitary cocaine-trafficking squads and some of Mr. Uribe's most prominent political supporters.The scandal (which surprised nobody) comes at a time when the U.S. Congress is considering extension of the so-called "free trade" agreement with the Colombian government. Blogger Jonathan Tasini (Huffington Post) writes that "free trade" has meant flooding Colombia with cheap imported grains from highly subsidized U.S. agribusiness corporations. This drives local farmers out of business and forces them to switch to growing coca for the well-connected drug gangs. Source. (Source: New Re... New Recovery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=730495 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:55:00 +0100 730495