The Riccheri highway, one of the main accesses to the City and the only way to the most important airport in the country, was cut by about twenty residents of Villa Madero. Four days earlier, a group of no more than thirty people had blocked the same highway, at the same height, to demand the release of three robbery detainees who, according to them, were innocent.

This story does not address the problem of lawless pickets and courts, nor the customary police and political inaction on the issue.