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Argentine Judges were also "trained" in Intellectual Property from the U.S. Government

addition to training police in counterterrorism techniques the State Department "trained" Argentine judges.

Washington / Buenos Aires .- The petition expressed by the Argentine Foreign Minister, Hector Timerman, Wednesday, on "courses of torture" and "technical coup" paid to police in Buenos Aires "academy" of El Salvador by the U.S. Embassy in Argentina has revealed the existence in the Central American country of so-called International Academy for Law Enforcement (ILEA, for its acronym in English), located in the Salvadoran capital under the patronage and guidance of the United States Government.

But it has also denounced the intrusion of the Embassy and the State Department in the training of Judges in Argentina: through the International Judicial Academy (IJA) and the American Chamber in Argentina (AmCham), dozens of Argentine judges have been trained by the association sponsored by the State Department.

The academy has referred to as the Argentine representative Ricardo Li Rosi civil judge, member of Academic Council of the College Judicial Council of the Magistracy and regular panelist on seminars organized by AmCham and the U.S. Embassy in Argentina.

A delegation of fifteen judges visited Argentina in August 2008 at a seminar organized by the International Judicial Academy on Intellectual Property. So did 10 judges in 2009 and no estimate of how many attended in 2010.

"The embassies in Latin America received some time ago the order from Washington to organize seminars on intellectual property for the judges and judicial officers to instruct on an issue where, supposedly, were ill-prepared" , industrial property attorneys explained.

For the United States and its embassies, the judges "trained" must defend the intellectual property of U.S. companies in American courts, where they boast "a delayed absorption of international law on the topic .

The State Department in recent years lobbied for the embassies were devoted to policing the courts where American companies had filed suit for alleged piracy of software, films, music and medicine.

The American Association of Pharmaceutical Industries (ALIFAR) said at the time his "concern about some activities sponsored by the U.S. government, designed to train judges in the region in intellectual property in order to influence the judges with a unilateral vision and interests. "

The organization warned that Washington and through these seminars for judges in Latin America, it encourages a "conceptual confusion between drug counterfeiting and piracy and counterfeiting of intellectual property rights (trademarks and copyrights) as pharmaceutical companies seek to impose to preserve the monopoly of their products on the market, discrediting the products of domestic industry ".

The "training" of judges in the North try to qualify of "hacking" a national drug manufacturers in Argentina, and Brazil offer cheaper generic versions of patented original multinationals.

nuemerosas NGOs are funded by the United States Embassy in Buenos Aires, sponsoring training abroad for judges, prosecutors, police and customs officials intellectual property that have participated in seminars to the measure of the United States and beyond the control of the Argentine government itself.

Source: Parent Agency South