About the loan: who knows?! It was the 80's and Brazil was under a crazy military dictatorship imposing lots of economics barriers like the one described in the

About the loan: who knows?! It was the 80's and Brazil was under a crazy military dictatorship imposing lots of economics barriers like the one described in the article. I could bet some money they did it in the shadows and Unitron happily accepted it but I guess it will be impossible to know for sure. What everyone agrees with in Brazil is that those restrictions did more harm than anything else to the country's economy and its technological progress. By the way, Brazil has a 15-year-old (huge!) generic drug manufacturing market so to me it's clear the US has lost this particular battle, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Brazil#Drug_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Brazil#Drug_patent... for more info about it. This fight on drug patents was supported by the UN and other emerging countries, like India.