Op Venezuelanalysis.com werd vorige week woensdag een artikel gepubliceerd
over het tekort aan medische apparatuur en medicijnen, daar deze
zaken of veel te laat of on het geheel niet worden geleverd door de
sancties die de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS Venezuela
heeft opgelegd……
Schande,
de manier waarop de reguliere media en veel zogenaamde Zuid- en
Midden-Amerika deskundigen spreken over Venezuela: de ellende zou aan
het beleid van Maduro liggen, terwijl de VS al jaren geleden begon met
haar sancties tegen Venezuela…… In eerst instantie nog via de
grote supermarkten in Venezuela, veelal in handen van eigenaren in de
VS, die onder zware druk werden gezet door de Obama administratie hun winkels in Venezuela niet
langer te bevoorraden…….
Nu is er
een heel pakket van maatregelen opgetuigd, zo kan Venezuela niet
langer beschikken over haar banktegoeden in Zwitserland, Canada, EU
en Panama….. Bedrijven die handelen met Venezuela kunnen op
maatregelen van wereldpsychopaat VS rekenen….. De VS, het gestolen
land dat onbeschaamd denkt haar wet overal en nergens te kunnen laten
gelden en dat daadwerkelijk probeert af te dwingen in wat niet andere gezien kan worden dan economische oorlogsvoering……. Daarom is het ook van het allerhoogste
belang dat de wereld het SWIFT betalingssysteem laat vallen*, een
systeem dat door de VS wordt misbruikt om landen naar de afgrond te dwingen…..
Het is
onbegrijpelijk dat men de VS keer op keer laat begaan met haar meer
dan schandelijke sancties (ronduit terreur), waardoor eerder al 500.000 kinderen in
Irak om het leven kwamen (dat vond de ‘democratische’
oorlogsmisdadiger en psychopaat Albright de zaak meer dan waard….).
Naast
Venezuela heeft de VS ook Iran sancties opgelegd, terwijl de rest van
de wereld het niet eens is met de VS dat het nucleaire verdrag met
Iran verscheurde….. Ook nu durven leden van de Trump administratie, zoals Pompeo te
stellen dat deze sancties een groot aantal doden zal gaan ‘opleveren’ in
Iran**, maar dat is dan de schuld van de regering in Teheran, ofwel ‘de VS kan haar handen in onschuld wassen’ (maar dan wel in de zwembaden met het bloed van de slachtoffers die de VS zelf heeft vermoord…..)……. De
ongelofelijke kromheid van de redenering die Pompeo zich liet ontvallen, meer dan belachelijk!!
Maduro
Calls on UN to Help Break US-led Blockade, Supply Medical Equipment
The
Humanised Childbirth Program and Cuban medical mission are also to be
expanded.
Maduro
proposes to widen the reach of the Humanised Childbirth Program
(Prensa Miraflores)
Merida,
November 14, 2018 (venezuelanalysis.com)
– Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has requested international
assistance from the United Nations (UN) and, in particular, the UN
Development Program (UNDP), to “break” the US-led economic
blockade against the country and help supply vital medical equipment.
His
call came at a gathering of health sector leaders and activists from
the Humanised Childbirth Program in Caracas Tuesday.
“I
ask for support from the UNDP, from the UN system, because as you
know the imperialist government of the United States is persecuting
and blockading us. If I want to buy some essential equipment
somewhere in the world to protect our pregnant women, the US
government persecutes us and impedes or delays [the purchase],” he
stated. “We have a lot of work to do,” he continued.
His
statements come amidst a polarising debate concerning international
intervention in Venezuela. Opposition forces, as well as regional
right wing governments, have been pushing international
organisms to declare a humanitarian crisis in the country as
justification for a direct foreign intervention.
Caracas
has, however, has coincided with UN
experts in denying that
such a crisis exists, and claims that any direct foreign intervention
is cover for regime change efforts.
For
his part, the Maduro government has been open to international
cooperation, previously
requesting UN
medical help, as well as for programs which facilitate the voluntary
return of migrants. Caracas has also hosted international programs
involving foreign specialists, often including Cuban doctors, Russian
economists, or Chinese spacial or telecommunications technicians.
The
economic blockade against Venezuela includes US financial
sanctions,
Swiss, EU, Canadian and Panamanian bank account freezes, trade
embargos, unilateral measures against international trade payments,
and persecution of foreign firms which trade with Venezuela.
Independent
estimates report US
$6 billion of lost oil revenue as a result of sanctions,
whilst government
sources have denounced the
freezing of payments of imported medical supplies such as
anti-malaria or HIV treatments. The vast majority of Venezuela’s
medical supplies and equipment are imported, and thus vulnerable to
blockading policies by foreign agents.
Humanised
Childbirth Program to be expanded
Despite
the difficulties caused by the blockade, the government continues to
attempt to expand social welfare in Venezuela, announcing Tuesday
that the number of local attention centres of the Humanised
Childbirth Programis
due to be amplified from 124 to 1,000 within six months. The number
of professional program ‘promoters’ will also grow from 10,000 to
30,000 in the same time period.
The
program, launched in July 2017, looks to promote natural gestational
and birthing practices as well as provide sexual education and
support to especially young women. It emerged as a result of an
increasing trend in Venezuelan hospitals of doctors forcing pregnant
women to undergo caesarean sections, both as a means of generating
profits in the private clinics, as well as to avoid the extra
workload which could be generated by birthing complications.
At
the Caracas gathering, President Maduro indicated that the Humanised
Childbirth Program is also to be upgraded to ‘social mission’
status.
Venezuela’s
social missions are government run welfare programs. It is expected
that they will be given constitutional status in the new magna carta
currently being drafted by the Constituent Assembly.
Independent
report on women’s rights
The
announcements coincided with the publishing of a comprehensive
and independent report on
female rights in Venezuela, including access to healthcare and sexual
and reproductive rights, by the Entrompe de Falopio (Fallopian
Tubing) collective.
The
report, which indicates that women have suffered disproportionately
from the current economic situation, describes the Humanised
Childbirth Program as “very valuable.”
It
also informs that 20 percent of Venezuelan women under 20 have gone
through a pregnancy, as well as 62 percent of women under 25.
The
authors identify maternal death rates, backstreet
abortion practices,
and income-based
poverty which
restricts access to overpriced medical supplies as on-going problems.
Cuban
medical mission enlarged
A
day after Maduro requested international assistance from the UNDP,
support also arrived from Venezuela’s anti imperialist ally, Cuba,
who sent
500 more specialist doctors to
the country, Havana based media outlet Granma reports. This latest
instalment brings the total number of Cuban doctors based in
Venezuela to 21,700.
The
doctors, who arrived in planes from the respective Cuban and
Venezuelan state airlines, will strengthen both the leadership and
base work of the Cuban mission in the country, and comes as part of
the health plan approved by Maduro in the recent
congress of health workers.
“As
always, Cuba will strengthen the work of its brigade with an eye to
building a health system envisaged by the commanders of our
revolutions [Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez]. Public healthcare is a
priority and a bastion of the Bolivarian Revolution and we will
defend it side by side with this people,” stated Dr Fernando
Gonzalez, head of the Cuban healthcare mission in Venezuela.
The
new doctors will, he stated, focus on health promotion and illness
prevention and will be spread across the country.
Cuba
has played a leading role in the development of Venezuelan public
healthcare during the Bolivarian Revolution. Both the ‘Barrio
Adentro’ mission, which seeks to bring healthcare to poor and
remote communities, as well as the Jose Gregorio Hernandez mission,
which designs prosthetic limbs for disabled people, include a large
Cuban contingent of doctors who help plan and run the mission.
Edited
by Ricardo Vaz for Venezuelanalysis.com
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* Zie: ‘SWIFT betalingssysteem raakt monopolie (gelukkig) kwijt‘ en ‘The New Tyranny of the Dollar‘
** Zie: ‘Ron Paul maakt gehakt van Pompeo’s uitspraak dat sancties een paar miljoen dode Iraniërs waard zijn…..‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)