Ley Seca (Dry Law) will be back in action on Friday as part of the government's security plan for Easter. One of the aims of the measure is to ensure that motorists drive while not under the influence. The other objective is to prevent, or reduce, the rate of car accidents or other violent scenes during Holy Week.
Liquor stores, supermarkets and shops will be permitted to sell alcohol from nine o'clock in the morning until seven in the evening. Bars, restaurants and nightclubs or discos will have to wait with parched throats until midday before cracking open the bottle.
These establishments will be allowed to go on filling customers' glasses until three o'clock the following morning.
Even though the measure won't make much difference to most people, it's prompted some negative responses from some detractors who claim not to have other chances for drinking, but the officially free days.
On March 23, Easter Sunday, the ban cranks up for the entire 24 hours.
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These are the usual administrative, bureaucratic and police methods of social engineering here -- and they give it a bad name with this sort of diktat by fiat. No socialist consciousness or social responsibility is being developed or built here at all.
ReplyDeleteWhile there may possibly be a need for emergency measures along these lines, temporarily, in no way can a socialist society of any social depth be built by such crude carrot/stick measures. And while just this very sort of class-consciousness-for-itself is the very hardest thing to accomplish in a revolution, that is very much exactly what needs to be done. Starting with this case. So some other program to deal with public drunkenness and drunk driving -- starting at the consejo level -- must be thought up. And discussed. Widely. And often. Everywhere. And voted on.