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He uses a street sign as a shield, a steam mask loaned to him by a painter friend, and leather knee pads with studs repaired with a sewing machine. Hugo is only 20, but says he is ready to die tonight to defend his neighborhood from the police.
He finishes eating a sandwich and takes a stand on one of the barricades in Puerto Rellena, a poor neighborhood in the Colombian city of Cali where some of the fiercest clashes between police and demonstrators took place, especially in the early hours of the morning.
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