Santiago Mayor Abel Martínez is fulfilling a campaign promise to bring order to the streets in Santiago, much to the pleasure of city residents. Included in the measures, is an order against allowing windshield cleaners to operate on city streets. Drivers were being harassed at stoplights by the squeegee men, with reports of some of these individuals becoming aggressive.
El Nacional reported that many of the vendors say they will not be deterred and will return to intersections to throughout the city to clean windshields, claiming that this is the only way they make a living. Martínez has proposed to these windshield cleaners to apply for jobs as car washers at the Santiago Transportation Department of the Santiago city government. However, most of the windshield cleaners who heard of the offer, rejected it out of hand.
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El Nacional
14 July 2017
