In the field, Morales restores the conflict with Boli …

In the run-up to the elections, Jujuy governor Gerardo Morales reiterated his criticism of the Bolivian government of Evo Morales over the "inhuman treatment" that the Argentineans have been subjected to in that country. In line with the project that last year sought to price health services for foreign citizens, Morales now writes a firm letter to the Bolivian president to explain what happened with an Argentinian in Oruro. The Bolivian consul, Nelson Garachi Mamani, later attributed Morales' statements to "political incomes", saying it was simply "coordinating the matter and quickly bringing a solution".

The governor reinforced the position of the national executive vis-à-vis the immigrants in the letter and stressed, referring to the Bolivian community: "Currently, it has one of the largest populations in the world. the most numerous immigrants of our country and we welcome not only the Bolivian people, but we give him shelter, land, land, work, education, health, in short: LIFE, that's what it's about, Mr. President: of LIFE, that you and your government do not understand or develop.

He criticized Evo Morales and his government and referred to "the unfair and dehumanized way in which treatment, especially health, citizens and compatriots". The installation of the governor of the issue intervened in the case of the Argentine, Manuel Vilca, who crashed on December 8 in Oruro and had to be treated in a hospital in the region.

"He was hospitalized for five days in a public hospital in Oruro and charged the sum of 22,000 Bolivian pesos, which corresponds to the amount of 121,312 Argentine pesos in December," said Morales, who then indicated that the young man should have been referred. in a clinic in Cochabamba, where he, his family and friends had to pay US $ 7,000. "To continue the treatment and the operation, they wanted him to pay $ 10,000 more," complained the governor.

Shortly after, Mamani's response arrived and he said the Bolivian government would request a "thorough investigation of the hospital that would not attend." "It would have been great if we had coordinated the institutions, we could have co-ordinated the activities with the consulate, the commission for external relations and, beyond the political revenues, it was simply a matter of coordinating the file and of quickly find a solution, "said the consul. AM 530.

"When this kind of thing happens, there are always political returns, we are in an election year and this is also happening here, with a greater predisposition, we will always be ready to coordinate things like this very quickly. ", concluded the consul of the neighboring country. .

Morales swept the Bolivian government with the approach of voting in his province, where he has not yet confirmed the electoral calendar. The government's move to change last March, challenged as being xenophobic and downplayed in terms of actual numbers of hospital care for foreigners, was disjointed in the face of criticism.

Evo Morales escaped the confrontation with the government of Cambiemos. "The Argentine brothers who live in Bolivia will be treated in the same way as the Bolivian brothers who live in Argentina, we are from the great country," said the Bolivian president, and Morales automatically and Cambiemos retreated and decided that they would not charge medical care to foreigners.

The attention of foreigners not residing in the health budget is totally negligible, whether in Jujuy or Buenos Aires. According to official data, 728,035 births were recorded nationwide in 2016 and only 0.03% were children of mothers with usual residence abroad. The same year, in Jujuy, 14,028 hospitalizations (hospitalizations) were recorded, of which 0.9% had their usual residence abroad.