Venezuela's president urges all women to have 6 children

[TomSea]

Venezuela's president urges all women to have 6 children
ABC News

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Nicolás Maduro wants Venezuelan women to have many children as a way to boost the country, which has seen millions of people flee in recent years to escape its economic crisis.

Maduro made the exhortation during a televised event Tuesday evening for a government program promoting various birth methods.

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A report by Humans Rights Watch in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health concluded last year that the health system in Venezuela has "totally collapsed." Among other problems, it cited rising levels of maternal and child mortality as well as the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Read more at: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuelas-president-urges-women-children-69396214

John Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health.  Anyway, yes, it seems like their health system has "totally collapsed", repeating.

[thackney]

How would they feed them?

Sick and starving, Venezuelan children stoke fear of a lost generation – and more violence
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/sick-and-starving-venezuelan-children-stoke-fear-of-a-lost-generation-and-more-violence
Feb 21, 202

Famine In Venezuela: UN Reveals One In Three Venezuelans Is Extremely Starving
https://www.latintimes.com/famine-venezuela-un-reveals-one-three-venezuelans-extremely-starving-456401
Feb 27 2020

[TomSea]

On twitter, I follow this Ana di Leo (real name?). She's no star or anything, seems like an average Venezuelan citizen but I pick up a lot from her account, talking of sick people,  they take care of abandoned pets and stuff like that. It moves me, how, she is in her own way, quite an activist.

https://twitter.com/AnaMaDiLeo

Yes, the place is a train wreck right now. 

My Spanish is conversational, not fluent.... but I read a lot of what she says.

She has tweeted about people searching for medicine too before. I've already mentioned that.  So many stories, she and

Maibort Petit, now of NY, previously of Venezuela are both helpful. Maibort is a journalist:

https://twitter.com/maibortpetit

So much to keep up with.