Everything was wrapped in a persistent blanket of smoke rising from tyres being burned to prevent the advance of the riots. It was truly a territorial war as both sides fought to gain, or regain, mere inches of ground around the government buildings .I witnessed the destruction of the barricades by the police, and their subsequent rebuilding by the demonstrators. Tons of debris piled up hour after hour in the streets only to be promptly gathered and piled on the barricades by the thousands of protesters, who swarmed and rallied like ants defending their nest.
