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In reply to the discussion: Venezuelans mass for year's largest anti-government protests [View all]FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)39. Whenever there is a goodbye cruel America post
Why doesn't anyone ever talk about moving to Venezuela?
Scandinavia, Canada, France, Germany, Ecuador, Costa Rica, but never Venezuela.
Such a paradise...you would think people would be anxious to participate in such a wonderful society.
Unless, of course, they care about a woman's right to choose.
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10939
Revolutionary Students Demonstrate Against Venezuelas Strict Anti-Abortion Laws
By Z.C. DUTKA
Santa Elena de Uairen, October 2nd, 2014. (Venezuelanalysis.com) - On Sunday, around 200 Venezuelans from various socialist collectives gathered in the student residences of Plaza Venezuela, in Caracas, to protest the countrys strict anti-abortion laws.
Abortion is explicitly illegal in Venezuela except in life-threatening cases. The punishment for a woman who has an abortion is six months to two years in prison, while a doctor or other person who performs the procedure can be sentenced one to three years.
On the sidewalks surrounding the urban student housing, women and several male supporters hung colorful underwear-shaped banners from makeshift clotheslines, calling the event Airing Out the Dirty Laundry, in a symbolic effort to bring forth the intimate conflict that many women never have the freedom to express.
25 percent of adolescent deaths are caused by obstetric complications [in Venezuela], Dubraska Hernandez, an anthropology student and lead organizer with the Conjura Feminista collective told Venezuelanalysis.com. Thats 70,000 deaths a year which are never discussed.
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By Z.C. DUTKA
Santa Elena de Uairen, October 2nd, 2014. (Venezuelanalysis.com) - On Sunday, around 200 Venezuelans from various socialist collectives gathered in the student residences of Plaza Venezuela, in Caracas, to protest the countrys strict anti-abortion laws.
Abortion is explicitly illegal in Venezuela except in life-threatening cases. The punishment for a woman who has an abortion is six months to two years in prison, while a doctor or other person who performs the procedure can be sentenced one to three years.
On the sidewalks surrounding the urban student housing, women and several male supporters hung colorful underwear-shaped banners from makeshift clotheslines, calling the event Airing Out the Dirty Laundry, in a symbolic effort to bring forth the intimate conflict that many women never have the freedom to express.
25 percent of adolescent deaths are caused by obstetric complications [in Venezuela], Dubraska Hernandez, an anthropology student and lead organizer with the Conjura Feminista collective told Venezuelanalysis.com. Thats 70,000 deaths a year which are never discussed.
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Venezuelans will decide that. Lets see if there are even elections this year for parliament.
Bacchus4.0
Jun 2015
#57
Which can only lead to a right-wing takeover that will bring nothing but misery
Ken Burch
May 2015
#11
Venezuelans will decide. Looks like they aren't happy with what they have now nt
Bacchus4.0
May 2015
#13
It's kind of a big mistake on the gov's part that they didn't diversify their economy
Marksman_91
Jun 2015
#58
Being Venezuelan myself and having lived there most of life I think qualifies as research n/t
Marksman_91
Jun 2015
#62
So you would have a problem if the PEOPLE voted in a govt that you would consider
GGJohn
May 2015
#14
Last rally that Maduro called for did not even reach half of the turnout for these opposition ones
Marksman_91
Jun 2015
#59