Talking of the sewers, sidewalks and roads are also a total mess everywhere. The highways are very well kept and we paid a lot of tolls so presumably that helps. But get off the main roads and into towns and it’s a whole different story, as vendors set up temporary shop on the sidewalks, getting moved on by the carabinere if they are illegal.
In LaSerena our host John told us they have a huge problem with immigrants from Haiti, who have brought a big drug problem to his city. Apparently large numbers of Haitians were given legal status, a lump sum cash payment and are now infiltrating anywhere they can.
We also found a lot of the labor force is from Venezuela. Obviously that country is going to hell in a handbasket at a rate of knots and lovely young people keen to work and make their mark are entering Chile and finding lots of work.
Mention you are from Canada, and they are effusive about who they know who has managed to get there, what a heavenly place it is, safe, beautiful, clean. Yup, we are lucky that’s for sure.
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