Activists say legal loopholes and disputed sovereignty in an area between Chile and Argentina allowed them to create Republica Glaciar, according to The Santiago Times.
The new "country" issues its own passports and encourages
people to become citizens by pledging their allegiance online. Republica
Glaciar's first citizen is Chilean poet and Nobel Prize nominee Nicanor
Parra.
Chile has 82% of South America's glaciers - a main source of
fresh water. But it is one of the only countries without laws to protect
them, and "has allowed mining companies to become their main threat",
says Matias Asun, head of Greenpeace Chile.
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