Venezuela: Violence, human rights, and health-care realities

摘要

In his World Report1 on Venezuelan health services, Ewan Robertson got the cause-effect relation wrong. Protests in Venezuela are against a government that has generated one of the highest inflation rates in the world and placed the country at the top rankings for crime, corruption, economic instability, food shortages, and health-service inefficiency. These issues have triggered protest, built on the population's discontentment since 2001. The protests happening this year are not caused by opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez' support for students' demands for security, food, and medical supplies for hospitals.