The blame for the increase in such operations, Mr. Ch?vez said on State television over the weekend, rested with the doctors who "convinces some women that if they do not have large bosoms, they should feel bad." He said there was a "monstrous thing" that poor women seeking breast lifts when they had trouble making ends meet.
"What is this, friend?" Mr. Ch?vez declared its viewers.
Mr. Ch?vez's comments come at a time when Venezuela has emerged as one of the world's leading markets for breast augmentation. Between 30 000 and 40 000 women here to undergo the procedure each year according to the calculations of the Venezuelan society of plastic surgeons.
Signs in Caracas advertise bank loans to surgery. Gossip Blogs speculate on improvements to the participants of the Miss Venezuela pageant. Last year, tried a candidate to the national Assembly, Gustavo Rojas, to finance his campaign by raffling of breast cancer elevator (he lost anyway).
"I've never seen more silicone elsewhere," said Mireia Sallar?s, a filmmaker from Spain that focuses on feminist issues and are working on a project about Venezuela, the newspaper Tal Cual.
Mr. Ch?vez regretted the amount of money spent on cosmetic breast surgery, there are also a darker side with procedures with reports of surgical mistakes resulting in death in some patients. A 20-year-old woman, Paola Rios, died in Caracas this month due to complications from breast augmentation surgery.
Mr. Ch?vez's position on a tripod in Venezuelan popular culture encouraged rapid reactions from some quarters, particularly the medical profession. "I think not enough, there should be some kind of discrimination of these aesthetic procedures," said Dr. Ram?n Zapata Sirvent, leading plastic surgeon here.
In an acerbic leader on the subject on Monday with the opposition newspaper El Nacional Mr. Ch?vez Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, who regard Mr. Ch?vez as a friend. "Now, this obsolete militarist, repressive attitude of the rough, on women's freedom to do what they want with their bodies," said El Nacional.
President, however, made it clear that breast augmentation did not square well with his revolutionary priorities. He said that among thousands of letters he receives from supporters, arrived asking for his help for breast cancer Elevator, which would cost as much as $ 7,000. "Of course I had to reject it," he said.
State media agreement with the President on the subject. The State newspaper the Correo del Orinoco claimed this month that plastic surgery was "as common as dentist appointments, and it is not unusual for wealthy parents proudly buy his 15-year-old daughters breast implants for" come of age "birthday."
Maria Eugenia Diaz contributed reporting.
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