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 ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) – It's a tale of love, betrayal and history's most famous murder by ice pick. The plot to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the Soviet revolutionary-turned-exiled dissident, in Mexico City in ...
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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 ...
'The Chosen' is an ambitious, English-language take on the assassination of Trotsky. By Jonathan Holland In August 1940 in Mexico, Stalin’s old rival Leon Trotsky was killed in his office on Stalin’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by Stalinist agent Ramon Mercader in the Mexico City suburb of Coyoácan. Mercader’s access to the great revolutionary was made possible through his ...
It isn’t every day you have lunch with the weapon that killed Leon Trotsky. Or that you find yourself seated next to Jonna Mendez, the former CIA Intelligence Officer, who with her husband, Tony (of ...
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