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Nicolás Maduro went ahead to the 8-M celebrations with a patriotic plea that has outraged not only feminists. " May God bless you for giving the country six boys and girls . So give birth, then give birth! All women to have six children, all of them, let the country grow! Music!" president of the people "during the television liturgy on Tuesday in Venezuela, a meeting of the national plan for humanized delivery and breastfeeding at the Hugo Chavez Mission in Barcelona, ​​Anzoátegui state, in the east of the country.

The president ordered that in each commune there is a humanitarian delivery room to "massify it radically . " Since the time of the "supreme commander", Chavismo insisted that it is a "feminist revolution" where women are not touched or with the petal of a rose, while promoting plans that triggered teenage pregnancy , even numbers that today match Venezuela with African countries.

In the presidential calculation and in the revolutionary equation the numbers say that in your country there are 10 million women of childbearing age and annually more than 570,000 become pregnant. "Protecting the mother who gives life and preparing the family to provide care for the boy and the girl who has just been born is a beautiful work that we will leave as a love legacy for future generations. That is socialism, the kingdom of tenderness, equality and happiness ", the" son of Chavez "boasted.

Reality, always stubborn in Venezuela, demonstrates the opposite: the maternal mortality rate is driven by the revolutionary collapse, with 112 cases per 100,000. The Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Venezuela (SOGV) denies the existence of "humanized childbirth" before the state of the country's hospitals. The first three causes of maternal mortality are postpartum hemorrhages, sepsis and pregnancy-induced hypertension, according to Jairo Fuenmayor, a SOGV spokesperson, who has also warned about malnutrition and anemia with which women arrive at hospitals.

The presidential announcement unleashed an avalanche of claims and protests. "These comments by President Nicolás Maduro on national network (mandatory broadcast for all televisions and radios) in which he sends all women to bear children for the country. Women are more than a womb, we are citizens with rights," he protested the Venezuelan Association for Alternative Sex Education (Avesa).

"This is embarrassing! On the eve of March 8, this is Maduro's message . Apparently the whole policy is intended for that, for women to be only wombs, not people. Government public policy is aimed at women as mothers, not as citizens with rights, "complained the clinical psychologist and feminist Madymar León.

"Hospitals do not work, vaccines are scarce , moms cannot breastfeed because they are malnourished and less buy infant formula because it is priceless, migration forced by the humanitarian emergency. Psychotic dissociation has Maduro and the whole regime when they say things like this," he denounced the opposition deputy Manuela Bolívar.

The bad conditions for childbirth in Venezuela have caused pregnant women to travel to the border to give birth there under the umbrella of Colombian health and international organizations. At present, at the Erasmo Meoz University Hospital in Cúcuta, 80% of deliveries are carried out by Venezuelan women . January statistics confirm this: 406 of 500 deliveries. In 2019, the main health center in the North of Santander attended 4,311 Venezuelans.

The local newspaper La Opinión has collected the alarm of doctors from the Meoz hospital due to the low weight of newborns and to congenital diseases, such as syphilis and rubella syndrome , which had not been seen in the hospital for a long time.

Social networks have also been filled with evidence of the current situation of women who will face childbirth. "We went to the hospital pharmacy (Maternity Hospital of Valencia Central, third city in the country) and asked for $ 35 to buy medical supplies . Humanized delivery?" Asked a woman. Those $ 35 equals a minimum annual salary.

Contraceptive methods have also been appearing and disappearing from pharmacies for years, which makes family planning extremely difficult in a country where figures from UNICEF and Caritas confirm that between 13% and 16% of children are malnourished .

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