Protests are planned after the death of 16-year-old US-born Alexander Martínez Gómez, killed by police as he rode his motorbike
Sobbing down the telephone line from her home in rural Oaxaca state, Virginia Gómez remembered her 16-year-old son Alexander as a healthy youngster, who didn’t smoke, didn’t drink – and dreamed of playing football for Mexico.That dream was cut short this week, when Alexander Martínez Gómez, 16, was shot and killed by police in the village of Vicente Camalote. Officers opened fire from a passing patrol car.
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