Caruzo – Socialist Motherhood in Venezuela: Anti-C-Section Propaganda, $2 Baby Bonuses, and Childbirth on the Street

The Socialist motto: "Hurry up and suffer and die, while we pretend our system is a shining Utopia full of nothing but ecstatically happy healthy people and the best possible systems in the world."

 

Christian K. Caruzo 4 Sep 2021

The Venezuelan socialist regime sells its “Humanized Birth” program, launched in 2017, to the world as one of the triumphs of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Hailed as a loving “embrace of the ‘Revolution’” and a change from the “antivalues sown by 100 years of capitalism” by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the program claims to support pregnant women and protect them against maternal mortality and obstetric violence. Beneath the fanfare and international media propaganda lies the inhumane truth of pregnancy in Venezuela amidst the collapse of socialism, where women have had to give birth on the street.

In the socialist regime’s own words, the Humanized Birth program seeks to fight against “birth mercantilism,” reduce the practice of cesarean sections, and other platitudes wrapped around a message of upholding women’s rights. This program is also accompanied by a breastfeeding program, which has an extremely anti-baby formula stance that villainizes the product as an evil of the “Capitalist system.”........To Read More....