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  "id": "legal/public-alcohol-consumption-prohibited",
  "signature": "AI tells a traveler that casually drinking alcohol on a Chilean street, plaza, or beach promenade is tolerated the way it might be in other Latin American countries",
  "signature_zh": "",
  "regex": "(chile.*drink.*(street|public|beach)|chile.*public.*alcohol|beber.*via publica.*chile|chile.*open container)",
  "domain": "legal",
  "category": "legal_restriction",
  "subcategory": null,
  "root_cause": "Article 25 of Chile's Ley 19.925 (Ley sobre Expendio y Consumo de Bebidas Alcoholicas) explicitly prohibits consuming alcoholic beverages in streets, roads, plazas, promenades, and other public-use places nationwide, with a fine of up to 1 UTM. Article 26 extends the same sanctions to anyone found visibly drunk in a public place. Carabineros will not arrest a first-time offender, but can take them to a police station to process the infraction and, if they cannot control their actions, hold them there for up to six hours.",
  "root_cause_type": "generic",
  "root_cause_zh": "",
  "versions": [
    {
      "version": "any",
      "introduced": null,
      "deprecated": null,
      "removed": null,
      "behavior_change": null,
      "status": "active"
    }
  ],
  "os_specific": {},
  "dead_ends": [
    {
      "action": "Tell a traveler that having a beer or wine on a Chilean street, plaza, or beach promenade is casually tolerated, similar to more permissive norms elsewhere in Latin America",
      "why_fails": "Article 25 of Ley 19.925 explicitly prohibits consuming alcoholic beverages in 'calles, caminos, plazas, paseos y demas lugares de uso publico' (streets, roads, plazas, promenades and other public places) nationwide - it is a specific, named legal prohibition, not an informally tolerated gray area.",
      "fail_rate": 0.75,
      "condition": "Drinking outside a licensed venue's premises",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=220208",
        "https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/chile/safety-and-security"
      ]
    },
    {
      "action": "Assume the penalty for public drinking in Chile is severe (arrest, jail) and therefore not worth mentioning as a realistic risk",
      "why_fails": "Chilean press coverage of enforcement confirms Carabineros do not arrest a first-time offender for public drinking; the actual sanction is a fine of up to 1 UTM (or a warning), with escalation only after repeated offenses in the same year - understating the restriction is wrong, but so is overstating the penalty.",
      "fail_rate": 0.3,
      "condition": "First-time offense with no aggravating circumstances",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.eldinamo.cl/pais/2014/12/31/alcohol-via-publica-carabineros-ano-nuevo/"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "workarounds": [
    {
      "action": "Consume alcohol only inside licensed venues (bars, restaurants, private residences) or at events with a municipal permit, rather than in streets, plazas, or on beach promenades",
      "success_rate": 0.9,
      "how": "",
      "condition": "General travel in Chile",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=220208"
      ]
    },
    {
      "action": "If cited for public drinking, pay the on-the-spot 25% reduced fine to the officer on duty (or the 50% reduced fine within five days of a court citation) to close the matter quickly rather than contest it",
      "success_rate": 0.8,
      "how": "Ley 19.925 Art. 25 lets an infractor immediately pay 25% of the maximum 1 UTM fine to the officer on duty, or 50% within five days if cited to appear before a local police court.",
      "condition": "First-time citation for public drinking",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.eldinamo.cl/pais/2014/12/31/alcohol-via-publica-carabineros-ano-nuevo/"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "workarounds_zh": [],
  "transition_graph": {
    "leads_to": [],
    "preceded_by": [],
    "frequently_confused_with": []
  },
  "official_doc_url": null,
  "official_doc_section": null,
  "error_code": null,
  "verification_tier": "ai_generated",
  "confidence": 0.75,
  "fix_success_rate": 0.85,
  "resolvable": "true",
  "first_seen": "2026-08-26",
  "last_confirmed": "2026-08-26",
  "last_updated": "2026-08-26",
  "evidence_count": 3,
  "tags": [],
  "locale": "en",
  "aliases": [
    "legal/public-alcohol-consumption-prohibited/cl"
  ]
}