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Posted: October 18, 2009 at 5:20 a.m.
Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, announced on the radio show Dialogue with the President that he is preparing to override a host of drug patents to provide lower-priced generic medications, adding that access to medicine is a human right and his decision is motivated by “the philosophy of 21st century socialism.”
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