One of these, born at the University of Chile, La Zorda is involved in base-community and trade union work. They are promoting non-voting as a tactic. Saw some anarchist graffiti in Chillan, one of which was Proudhon's epigram about liberty being the mother of order - two blocks from the La Union Mutual Aid Society. The Green Movement is strong here, in terms of votes. General environmental consciousness is not.
All public areas are deep in paper, plastic and styrofoam waste.
Soft drink and beer cans are not recycled. The Chilean economy has a number of surprises for anyone still naive enough to believe left or right wing propaganda. In this so-called free market economy the largest industry, copper, is state owned. No sleazy bureau-rat will tell you how to build your house, prevent you from keeping chickens, operating a business from your garage, selling things in the street, turning your car into a taxi, etc., etc. All of what I call the fascism of daily life, a kind of 'death by a thousand cuts' that torments us in North America with our interminable bylaws, regulations, licences and high taxes does not exist here.