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Ramón Mercader
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NKVD agent, murderer of Leon Trotsky
Key facts
- Born
- Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río , ( 1913-02-07 ) 7 February 1913, Argentona , Catalonia , Spain
- Died
- 18 October 1978 (1978-10-18) (aged 65), Havana , Cuba
- Resting place
- Kuntsevo Cemetery , Moscow , Russia
- Other names
- Jacques Mornard Frank Jacson Ramón Ivánovich López Leon Jacome Leon Haikys (not to be confused with Leon Gaikis )
- Occupations
- Waiter militiaman soldier secret agent of the NKVD
- Criminal status
- Deceased
- Spouse
- Roquelia Mendoza Buenabad
- Parents
- Pablo Mercader Marina (father) Caridad del Río Hernández (mother)
- Relatives
- María Mercader (cousin)
- Conviction
- Murder
- Criminal penalty
- 20 years imprisonment
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ramón
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Barcelona
- Place of death
- Havana
- Mother
- Caridad Mercader
- Sibling
- María Mercader
- Employer
- NKVD
- Political party
- Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
- Languages spoken
- Catalan
- Award
- Gold Star medal
- Conflict
- Spanish Civil War
- Military rank
- colonel
- Convicted of
- murder
- Significant event
- assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Political ideology
- Stalinism
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- place of burial
- Kuntsevo Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1913-02-07
- date of death
- 1978-10-18
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Ramón Mercader
- name in native language
- Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río
- place of detention
- Palacio de Lecumberri
- pseudonym
- Ramón López
- allegiance
- Soviet Union
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Encyclopedic overview
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río ( Catalan pronunciation: [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 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ramón Mercader” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.