translated from Spanish: Mayor of Lo Barnechea admits there will be no penalty for those who do not respect time limit: “nothing will happen to them”

“We are very happy with the participation. I always said that between 5% and 10% of the pattern was going to be a tremendous success. In the case of Lo Barnechea we had never made a consultation of this nature (…) and got a 13% participation, much more of the rank that we had given ourselves”, celebrated this morning the mayor of Lo Barnechea, Felipe Guevara, the results of the citizen consultation eight communes in the country to approve a time limit for children under the age of 12 and 16.
“The result makes us work so that this social convention, because it is not a curfew as has been said, there will be no arrests or violations or anything like that, this social convention that must be worked. It’s going to be hard work is going to be intense work (…) but I’m sure it’s going to be on the right track,” he said on Radio Universe. “We also asked (…) if they wanted us to restrict the premises that sell alcohol such as dumps and benzine bombs, and it won that it was restricted.”
Asked about the sanctions for teenagers do not respect this new rule when it is in force, Guevara noted that “nothing will happen to him, first because I can not know how old that lolo is because I can not ask him for the identity card, I mean the inspectors s and municipal patrols. Nothing’s going to happen to him because I can’t identify him.” “Second, what’s going to happen is that some municipal inspector or citizen security patrol is going to approach you and remind you of what just happened yesterday, that the commune of Lo Barnechea voluntarily agreed on a suggested deadline for different groups and it’s just going to go away, there’s going to be no infractions, nobody’s going to be arrested.”
He added: “This is going to take hold as much as we are able with schools, with student centers, with parent centers, we are raising awareness of this. No one wants to walk around with a whip, with a hammer chasing people, but quite the opposite. Through a social agreement, agree on what we think is right and what things we don’t think is so good for.”
Asked if the project is likely to be left in dead letter at the time that there will be no sanctions for those who violate the schedules, he replied that “it is likely and that is the wonderful challenge that we have, we have a mandate, a significant percentage of people have suggested to put a circulation limit (…) and on that we’re going to work, we have a wonderful challenge. If it doesn’t work out, look, there are things that don’t work out in life. The important thing is to put all the effort into it, all the effort and I’m sure it will work because I trust the Community of Lo Barnechea.”
On the government’s distance from this initiative, the building said that “we never ask for or expect the government’s support, we don’t need it. I do think the government should put a magnifying glass on the use of alcohol and drugs in minors. We are the country with one of the highest rates of youth consumption in Latin America and should be concerned. I don’t know if the government is calm that in the botsandies and the benzene bombs sell pisco promotions until 5 am every day of the year. If you are happy, then do nothing, but I think the government should realize that you have a problem and if you do not address it, it will be the municipalities that are going to move forward on this. But if the government doesn’t realize we have a serious problem in alcohol and drugs, I think we’re in a bigger problem.”

Original source in Spanish