Ramón Mercader
1913–1978
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- spy
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Palacio de Lecumberri (historic, the 'Black Palace')Dates unknown
Biography
Jaime Ramón Mercader del RÃo (Catalan pronunciation: [rÉËmom mÉɾkÉËðe]; 7 February 1913 â 18 October 1978) was a Spanish communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940 with an ice axe, for which Mercader was imprisoned for 19 years and 8 months. In 1960, after release from Mexican imprisonment, Mercader was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and the Order of Lenin medal, and lived at different times in Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia.
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