Alex Muñoz, environmentalist: “All Chilean governments have been co-opted by salmon farming”

As a child, Alex Muñoz (49 years old, Santiago) used to spend summers with his family in the resort of Concón, in the Valparaiso Region of Chile. On that vacation, while enjoying the sand and the beach, his gaze always turned to the huge chimney of the Ventanas smelter in the state copper company Codelco, located a few kilometers away, whose black smoke obscured the bright panorama of his childhood. He never thought that years later he would end…