Critics of Chile's higher-education system say that some universities connive at, or even encourage, this ignorance, using a high first-year intake to finance their thinly populated later years.
For sure, Basque separatists, who take about 12% of the vote in the Basque region, connive at a lingering terror campaign that has taken some 800 lives in 30 years.
"It may be that the very wide definition of the word collusion that Judge Cory adopted was due to his concentration on one of the synonyms, namely the verb connive, " the inquiry report said.