Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río, pictured, a Spanish communist and agent for Russia’s notorious NKVD intelligence agency, murdered Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940 under orders ...
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Ramon Mercader fooled Trotsky’s inner circle - then struck in the study, “silent and swift death”
Ramon Mercader’s case follows a Soviet-backed assassination plot built on fake names, false romance, and political betrayal. After an earlier attack on Leon Trotsky’s home failed despite more than 200 ...
Directed by Spanish filmmaker Antonio Chavarrías, El Elegido (The Chosen) is an absorbing but limited work about Ramon Mercader, the Stalinist assassin who carried out the murder of Leon Trotsky in ...
WASHINGTON – When Ramon Mercader, a Spanish communist and Soviet NKVD assassin, died in Cuba in 1978, his last words included “I hear it always. I hear the scream.” The scream occurred in 1940 when ...
When Ramon Mercader, a Spanish communist and Soviet NKVD assassin, died in Cuba in 1978, his last words included “I hear it always. I hear the scream.” The scream occurred in 1940 when Mercader lodged ...
SAN ANTONIO — Because the history of Mexico is not widely taught outside its borders, the name of Ramón Mercader will be new to many readers of John P. Davidson's fascinating new novel. He briefly ...
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