Everybody is registered, has their fingerprints recorded and has been issued with an ID. That may have lapsed, they have to be renewed to keep the photo current, but they still have them. Bureacracy is a pain in the butt, but it brings certainty and inevitability.
You can do nothing without them. Literally nothing. Not even walk the streets if a Carbinero sees you.
The only exception is illegal immigrants. Which is a good thing.
I guess at it's most extreme could an unregistered alien have a baby in the woods and that baby grow up without ever seeing a doctor or a school or any other form of state or commercial organisation? I guess it's possible, but ridiculously unlikely.
Windrush couldn't happen here. It would have been dealt with at the airport on their arrival. You don't get in this country without going on the records.
Favelas, by the way, are Brazilian not Chilean.
>>I am deeply sceptical of how the sort of ID card Mark mentions being in circulation in Chile could be made to work for everybody here.
Only because of the whining of people paranoid about how it will destroy their freedom. Stuff and nonsense.
|
