Young Venezuelan women choose sterilization during brutal recession
Venezuela’s food shortages, inflation and crumbling medical sector have become such a source of anguish that a growing number of young women are reluctantly opting for sterilizations.
Oleydy Canizalez (R), 29, looks at her son Luis, 3, at their home in Charallave before her sterilization surgery.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Alejandra Jordan, 30, dresses her son Josue, before her sterilization surgery, at her home in San Francisco de Yare.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Women ride a bus to the hospital in Caracas for their sterilization procedure.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Women prepare for sterilization surgery at a hospital in Caracas.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Women wait for sterilization surgery a hospital in Caracas.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Medical personnel move a woman after her sterilization surgery while others wait for their procedure.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Medical personnel move a woman during her sterilization procedure.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Medical personnel push Emileidy Ojeda, 26, in a wheelchair after her sterilization surgery.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Alejandra Jordan (C), 30, rests on a couch at her home in San Francisco de Yare after sterilization surgery.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Lisibeht Martinez (L), 30, sterilized one year ago, sits next to her children near their house in Los Teques, Venezuela.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters