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Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (Spanish: [raˈmom meɾkaˈðeɾ]; Catalan: Jaume Ramon Mercader del Río [rəˈmom məɾkəˈðe]; 7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978) was a Spanish communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940.
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (Barcelona, 7 de febrero de 1913-La Habana, Cuba, 19 de octubre de 1978) fue un militante comunista español y agente del servicio de seguridad soviético NKVD, conocido por asesinar el 21 de agosto de 1940 al político y revolucionario ruso León Trotski.
Ramón Mercader (Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río), né à Barcelone le 7 février 1913 1 et mort à La Havane le 18 octobre 1978, est un militant communiste espagnol devenu agent du NKVD et connu pour avoir assassiné Léon Trotski en 1940.
Some three months later, however, Ramón Mercader, a Spanish communist who had won the confidence of the Trotsky household, fatally struck him with an ice pick. The Soviet government disclaimed any responsibility, and Mercader was sentenced to the maximum 20-year term under Mexican law.
Nov 15, 2023 · A man of his times, when individuals were swept away in ideological and geopolitical struggles, Ramón Mercader was a willing and murderous servant of Stalin to whom he remained stubbornly committed to until the very end.
Aug 21, 2015 · The assassin’s real name was Ramon Mercader, a Spanish communist recruited by the brutal Soviet intelligence agency NKVD during the Spanish Civil War.
On the afternoon of August 20, 1940, Ramón Mercader, a young Spaniard in the hire of the GPU, Joseph Stalin’s secret police, seized the moment. Under the alias of Canadian businessman “Frank Jacson,” he had infiltrated Leon Trotsky’s household in Coyoácan, a borough of Mexico City, several months earlier.
