Yes, that stuff happens unfortunately, it's one of the things that I always criticize - the argument put front for that is always the "community spirit", which is something that is indeed not easy to understand for us that did not grow up with that, but the opposite, and individualism propelled by capitalism/consumerism.

It's the same with forcing people to close down shops. To block all access to the city, instead of just the Panamericana. There's a lot that goes wrong during the paros, it feels like a mix of revenge and abuse of power by those who generally don't have it - but as a friend of mine said: The abuse of power executed by the indigenous is not even on the same scale as the abuse of power executed by the government.

That's something I still think about.