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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian authorities have seized 27 boxes of the antiviral drug remdesivir from a woman at an airport in Cucuta who said the drugs were a coronavirus vaccine, officials said on Friday.
The boxes seized by police contained a version of the drug called Bemsivir with a value of $18,000 on the black market, Colombia’s tax and customs police (POLFA) said in a statement.
Bemsivir, produced by Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd, is a generic form of remdesivir, a COVID-19 treatment developed by Gilead Sciences Inc.
“During a routine check that was carried out on Thursday at the airport in Cucuta, the boxes with the medicine were found in the luggage of a woman who said it was the vaccine against COVID-19,” POLFA director Brigadier General Gustavo Franco said in a telephone interview.
The relationship between the MERCOSUR agreement with the European Union and South American regionalism
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Note: this piece originally appeared in Portuguese in Revista Relações Exteriores, a Brazilian publication which provides analysis of major international events. Fernando Vieira works as a columnist in the field of political intelligence, macroeconomic analysis, and Brazilian foreign policy.
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The sealing of the political and economic agreement between MERCOSUR and the European Union (EU) in July 2019 has created an environment of optimism among the engaged members in promoting institutional and economic integration. For both trade blocs, the last few years have marked a significant setback towards these objectives: flagged by the finalization of the U.K.’s exit from the EU, the suspension of Venezuela from MERCOSUR, and the rising ideological divergences of Argentina from
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