2026年5月19日、チリのワスコ市議会が、海辺の小さな集落を担当する職員2人の日当に、年2,000,000ペソを出すことを全会一致で決めた。19 May 2026 — The council of Huasco, in Chile, votes unanimously to spend two million pesos a year on the daily allowances of two staff assigned to a small coastal hamlet.

On 19 May 2026 the municipal council of Huasco, in the northern Chilean region of Atacama, voted unanimously (Resolution No. 204) for the town to provide two million pesos a year toward the daily allowances and related costs of two professionals assigned, under the 'Small Localities Programme', to Carrizal Bajo.

The stated aim was to keep the programme running properly on the ground. Carrizal Bajo is a small settlement on the Pacific coast, about sixty kilometres south-west of the town of Huasco.

At the same meeting the council also approved, unanimously, the contract for building a staircase down to the beach at Carrizal Bajo (tender no. 3738-5). The chair was Genaro Briceno Tapia.