VENEZEULAN President Nicolás Maduro is urging women of his country to have six children.
He made the call at a televised event that promoted a national women’s healthcare plan and this was good for the country while he instructed women “to give birth, give birth.”
The country is facing an economic crisis which has resulted in severe food and medicine shortages.
Between 2013 and 2018, 13% of Venezuelan children were malnourished, according to UN children’s agency Unicef.
A bitter power struggle between the government and the opposition has exacerbated the country’s trials, the BBC is stating.
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó is considered the legitimate leader of Venezuela by more than 50 countries. But President Maduro, the country’s left-wing leader who enjoys the support of the Venezuelan military, has remained in power.
“May God bless you for having given life to six little girls and boys,” Maduro told a woman who attended the healthcare event.”
He said, “Every woman should have six children for the good of the country,”, adding that it was “women’s week”, a reference to International Women’s Day on March 8.
