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Article: Low miles, clean: Iquique, on Chile's border with Peru, has turned into a entry point for used cars and clothing.(Smuggling)
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- Revista Latin Trade
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Day and night, Chilean cops stop people hired to drive used cars over the border into Peru and Bolivia. Caravans of to vehicles or more cruise the frontier, looking for unguarded spots to cross without, paying taxes. In the chilly night air of the driest desert in the world, illegal trafficking of cars, driven by men who earn US$40 per trip, a relative fortune here, and of used clothing, carried by women turned pack animals called burreras, has become a big business.
Chile has 860 kilometers of border with Bolivia and 160 kilometers with Peru, most of it an inhospitable, high-altitude desert once better known as a highway for drugs and illegal immigrants. Now it ...