Xenophobia campaign in Jujuy | At the request of Morales …

After threatening the social networks to impose medical care on Bolivians and having met the Bolivian Minister of Health in a specific case, Jujuy governor Gerardo Morales was able to get approval by the local legislature its bill on the payment of benefits. medical services received by foreigners. The measure, which was ratified yesterday by the ruling party, introduces the collection of insurance for those temporarily pbading through the province. For the opposition, the law is unconstitutional, regressive and one of the "biggest newspapers" in the province's history.

Law 6.116, adopted last night, establishes by regulation the authorizations, modalities, nomencladores and remunerative values ​​of provincial health insurance benefits for all foreigners who do not pay the tax burden "to pay for the services provided by the 'State".

The ruling party defended the measure and defined it as a "law of equality". "More than 90% of Jujeños were waiting for this law," said MP Luciano Rivas. "This is not a revenge, it is acts of justice for foreigners in transit who will have to take charge of their health care," said the MP for Cambiemos Marcelo Nasif, without hiding his xenophobia.

Nasif, who on another occasion justified child labor in rural areas, explained the measure with long-standing statistics. He said that in 2007, 193,000 Bolivians entered the border between Jujuy and Salta and said that the majority of them had settled in their province.

The opposition has severely criticized the law, which she described as "unconstitutional, regressive and" one of the largest newspapers of the Jujuy legislature. For Juan Manuel Esquivel, legislator of Unidad Ciudadana, the pbadage with Bolivia for a specific case "must be resolved diplomatically" because "the economic impact of health care of foreigners is zero, only 5% from the attention the doctors are foreigners to Jujuy. "

The representative of the PJ, Javier Hinojo, argued that the legislative debate was aimed at "removing from the political agenda what is happening in Jujuy and blaming the most vulnerable sector, that of foreigners in the province". "The obsessive problem of the governor, Gerardo Morales, is with the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, to generate a current of hatred, because there is discrimination," said Peronist MP Alejandra Cejas.