Autonomy isn’t freedom because someone says so—it’s when the trawlers can’t block your path and the government doesn’t hand your coast to salmon farms like a wrapped gift. I want to decide when to sail, what to catch, and who shares the profit, not some man in Santiago with a contract and a flag. The sea doesn’t belong to corporations, and neither do we. If we can’t govern ourselves in the places we’ve worked for generations, then what are we? Just labor with a view. I don’t want independence to escape Chile—I want it so Chile remembers us. When the boat moves on its own fuel and its own call, that’s when you’re not a subject anymore.
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