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Public order: the end of unpunished road blockades
Resolución 943/2023 (Ministry of Security)
in forceNATIONAL
State, institutions and security
Res. 943/2023 empowers the federal forces to clear street and road blockades, and frames them under art. 194 of the Criminal Code.
What changed and who it applies to
What changed
It empowers the Federal Police and Security Forces to intervene and clear blockades of traffic routes (streets, highways, avenues), treating the blockade as conduct under art. 194 of the Criminal Code. The intervention can reach provincial/CABA territory under the Internal Security Ley 24.059. The rule was challenged by the CELS: in the first instance judge Martín Cormick declared it void (at the end of December 2025, for the Executive exceeding its powers), but the Federal Administrative Litigation Chamber revoked that nullity at the end of March 2026 and restored its validity, holding that it is an internal directive for the federal forces and not a regulation of the right to protest. As of the consultation date it is in force; the challengers announced an appeal to the Supreme Court. [The judicial chronology does NOT appear in the Official Gazette primary source: it comes from convergent press, not from the text of the rulings.] verif Dec 14, 2023 ↗
In force
Signed on 12/14/2023 and published in the Official Gazette on 12/15/2023 (notice 300917). In force since its publication. Its validity was in judicial dispute: void in the first instance (Dec-2025), restored by the CAF Chamber at the end of March 2026. [The judicial chronology does not appear in the Official Gazette primary source.] verif Dec 15, 2023 ↗
Are you in or out?
Organizers and participants of traffic-route blockades (pickets/blockades of streets, highways and avenues) in federal jurisdiction, and in provincial/CABA territory when the federal forces intervene. It enables the Gendarmerie, Prefecture, Federal Police and Airport Security Police to clear the route. It benefits those who travel and the economic activity dependent on transport (logistics, supply, commerce). verif Dec 14, 2023 ↗
The norm
Resolución 943/2023 of the national Ministerio de Seguridad (RESOL-2023-943-APN-MSG), signed by Minister Patricia Bullrich, official title 'Protocolo para el mantenimiento del orden público ante el corte de vías de circulación' (protocol for keeping public order when traffic routes are blocked). Legal basis invoked in the primary source: art. 194 of the Criminal Code, Ley de Seguridad Interior 24.059, Ley de Ministerios 22.520 and Ley General del Ambiente 25.675. verif Dec 14, 2023 ↗
Our reading
The protocol restores the right to travel and keeps the routes operational: predictability in logistics and less cost of conflict for companies and residents. The courts validated the rule on appeal (March 2026), a signal of rule stability (R3 · stability → long-term investment). What the thesis watches: the challengers announced an appeal to the Supreme Court; an eventual setback would change the picture, but as of today the rule is in force and was upheld on appeal. thesis
Where it lands, province by province3
Neuquén The corridor to Añelo has one route and no rail alternative: a road blockade stops the sand feeding every frac spread in the basin at once. The protocol gives federal forces the tool to clear it, even on provincial territory. That is what makes it possible to commit to delivery windows with penalties, which is how fracturing logistics is contracted. favorable stability → long-term investment thesis
Catamarca Resolución 943/2023 allows federal forces to clear road blockades on provincial territory and the Court of Appeals upheld it in March 2026. In Catamarca copper is held up by social conflict in Andalgalá, the district that grew 8.5% between censuses, the second-lowest variation. But what is stopping the USD 4,000 M of Agua Rica/MARA is an unfiled environmental permit and a judicial front, not a blockade. mixed stability → long-term investment thesis
San Juan Veladero, Vicuña and Los Azules are supplied by mountain national roads with no alternative: a blockade there cannot be driven around, it stops the operation. The protocol puts federal forces in charge of clearing federal roads, and road blockades are precisely the signal the province's own watchlist records for water conflict and social license in Jáchal and Calingasta. favorable stability → long-term investment thesis
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