Police officer Armando Reyes was at work when he first saw the footage on TV: a young man with a bullet hole in his head, falling off the back of a motorcycle. But it wasn’t until he watched it a second time, hours later, that he recognised who the man was: his son, 34-year-old Francisco Reyes Zapata.
“He was shot by a police sniper,” said Mr Reyes, who has worked as a police officer in Nicaragua for four decades. “All those years of service, and they kill my son like a dog," he told The Telegraph.
Francisco spent his last day marching through Managua with tens of thousands of protesters, during a protest dedicated to the more than 80 mothers who had lost children since protests began, seven…
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