The fury erupted on April 22. “The connection of the branches to the capital has been blocked for an hour now. Residents of Escobar and Pilar who work in the capital no longer know what time to leave to avoid the constant traffic jams,” tweeted Jota Leonetti, a traffic journalist from Buenos Aires. “We can’t live like this anymore. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in a chaos that repeats itself like a curse: the Pan-American Highway gridlocked, hours lost amid honking horns, frustration, and resignation,” lamented Mario Fitz Maurice, head of arrhythmias at Rivadavia Hospital.

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