In three days of violence, a dozen illegal roadblocks shut down the city centre.
In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court said such checkpoints are illegal; roadblocks are legal for DWI checks, but not for narcotics checks.
People set up illegal roadblocks and were seen harassing motorists, while a motorcycle taxi rider lay seriously hurt and bleeding by the roadside.
In Chiapas, social services are offered on condition of political support, illegal roadblocks prevent select communities from seeking health care, some women have undergone forced sterilization procedures, and government health services are denied to indigenous people and opposition groups.
Trucks carrying charcoal for cooking, for example, are "taxed" $50 at illegal roadblocks and even motorcyclists have to pay a sort of licence fee of $2 a week, the report by the UN group of experts published within the last week says.
This was selective law-enforcement: for years the government has refused to deploy the police against a similarly illegal roadblock by its own supporters only a few miles away in protest at a pulp mill in neighbouring Uruguay.Two days later, demonstrators thronged many Argentine cities, banging pots and pans in exasperation.
The gunmen opened fire when Samuel L. Davis refused to stop his pickup truck at an illegal roadblock near the town of San Fernando.
The driver's convoy was stopped by militiamen who demanded money at an illegal roadblock north of Galkayo.
For a photographer in Iraq, death might come in any number of ways: being caught in a firefight, being stopped by insurgents at an illegal roadblock, or riding in a car that hits a roadside bomb.
And the checkpoints, the shakedowns, the roadblock dictators.
