Senate Aide Threatened Colombia Over Cheap Cancer Drug

New Delhi, INDIA: Indian people infected with HIV and activists hold placards and shout slogans against Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis during a demonstration in New Delhi, 29 January 2007, urging the company to withdraw a case against the Indian government's laws on drug patents. Novartis aims at challenging the patent laws in India, which will make several life saving drugs like anti-HIV ,cancer medicines severely expensive and beyond the means of common people in scores of developing countries that source cheap drugs from India. AFP PHOTO/ Manan VATSYAYANA (Photo credit should read MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)

Leaks Show Senate Aide Threatened Colombia Over Cheap Cancer Drug

A Senate aide warned that the pharmaceutical industry could become very vocal and interfere with other interests that Colombia could have in the United States.