The Minister of Health demonstrated her ignorance today when she said, in reference to the Court’s decision on the Cuban medical doctors: ” No decision by a Court can be above the right to health and life”.This is simply ignorance. First of all, it is precisely the Courts that decide in issues of conflicts between rights, not Minsiters. Second, the right to work of unemployed Venezuelan workers is being violated and that is also a right established by the Constitution. Third, there is a law regulating who can practice medicine, precisely to protect the rights to health and life of those being treated, otherwise anyone can claim they have some training that they do not. Venezuelan medical doctors are, in general, better trained than the Cuban ones. For decades anyone wanting to practice medicine in Venezuela had to pass an equivalency program in order to treat patients directly. Finally, it is incredible to me how the Venezuelan Government discriminates against its own citizens in the interest of ideology.
The Devil's Excrement
Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.
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