The Anti-Barricade Law (Spanish: Ley Antibarricadas) is a Chilean law created in the context of the 2019–20 Chilean protests which increases the punishments for setting up barricades, carrying out plunder or throwing objects at people or vehicles.
[1] It modifies four articles of the Penal Code of Chile:[2] On March 3, 2020, a group of Primera Línea was rounded up and detained by Carabineros enforcing the newly drafted law.
[4] Subsequently, only one of the 44 detained was kept in preventive prison; the remaining were set free but required to report and sign-in twice a month.
[4] During the truck driver's strike of August 2020 in which a series of major roads and highways in Chile were blocked the Anti-Barricade Law was not applied.
[5] The President of the Federation of Chilean Industry (SOFOFA) Bernardo Larraín Matte criticized the government for this.