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business interests that drive policy

Belatedly, I intend to tell how this visit of the "conspirators toxic", as some call us, to Avila on Saturday. Prior to thank, once again, the organization, the Environmental section of the union Workers Commissions (CCOO) - their dedication, it became the launch event of our book toxic Conspiracies: How to undermine our health environmental and business groups in an audience and sales success, indeed.

Photo: digital Ávila

We received the walled city, the highest of all English cities, with the spring in winter so characteristic of this time "cambioclimatizado." The hall was the church of the Monastery of Santa Ana, which is used as a reception hall at the seat of Government of Castilla y León Ávila. Nearly full, with an audience very interested in knowing who they are and how they operate the business lobby groups or lobbies, parallel governments in the shade.

began with a conference call with reporters where a lot of stress just that industrial lobbies working in the shade with the political class, with good part of it, at least, to promote technologies and services that most people would not accept if it were consulted about: nuclear power, genetically modified foods, toxic chemicals, petrochemical refineries, macrourbanizaciones with golf courses, from electromagnetic pollution mobile telephony and a long, long list.

intervened about 25 'each of the three authors, Rafael Carrasco, Joaquín Vidal and me, Miguel Jara, I took the topic to the operation of industrial lobbies to discuss the most powerful of them: the pharmaceutical industry , as explained Traffickers in health. After appearing before the public with our discussion was an extensive question and I have to say I was surprised-or maybe not so much because it has been the trend throughout the year that I present this latest work, which most of the questions dealt on the practices of the pharmaceutical industry, although the act was billed as the launch of our second book.

This demonstrates once again the enormous public interest in knowing the interstices of the fabric farmasanitario, how it influences health and illness and how to negotiate with them. And also to know the alternatives and the movements of response to the prevailing corruption in recent times are leading many health professionals willing to change many aspects of the current model.

reappeared in the case of the drug scene Agreal of Sanofi-Aventis, on two occasions, and both remember the awe of the women act when they learned that this drug, used for hot flashes of menopause , cause serious damage to the health of women. Mouths open when I explained that the first sentence of a court-exist only 4,000 claims in Spain Agreal concludes that encourages suicide, but in Latin America many countries are still marketed.

Anyway, we went back to review a phenomenon, lobbying, while growing crisis of values \u200b\u200bin the West and which, if not halt it soon threatens to end what is left of democracy: business pressure on the policy places on the power of economic elites.