Ramon Mercader, who killed this Russian in Mexico in 1940, died in Havana in 1978
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Ramon Mercader | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers  Date of murder: August 20, 1940. Date of arrest: Same day. Date of birth: February 7, 1914. Victim profile: Leon Trotsky, 60 (Russian Communist ideologist) ... Location: Coyoacn, Mexico ... Died in Havana, Cuba, on October 18, 1978 ... Jaime Ramn Mercader del Ro Hernndez (February 7, 1914  October 18, 1978) was...
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Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico | History Today  Trotsky's tomb in Mexico City Born in the Ukraine in 1879 and later hailed by one admirer as ... He was a leading figure in the Bolshevik movement under Lenin, after whose death in 1924 he was the most ... She had a lover, a Spanish communist called Ramn Mercader, who turned up at the ... He died in Havana in 1978.
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Forgotten Assassin: Ramn Mercader, The Man Who Murdered ...  Feb 18, 2013 ... Jaime Ramn Mercader del Ro, a Spanish communist and agent for Russia's ... murdered Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940 under ... between Havana and Moscow until his death in Cuba in 1978.
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Russia revolutionary Leon Trotsky killed in 1940: This week in ...  Aug 19, 2016 ... Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky got an ice pick to the head. ... Leon Trotsky, exiled 'Napoleon of the Bolsheviks' who fled to a haven in Mexico was near death today, victim ... In fact he was Ramon Mercader, a Spanish communist who was an ... Mercader died in Havana, Cuba, in 1978 at the age of 65.
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Ramn Mercader - Wikipedia  Jaime Ramn Mercader del Ro (7 February 1913  18 October 1978), more commonly known as Ramn Mercader, was a Spanish communist and NKVD agent who assassinated the Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1940, in Mexico. He served 20 years in Mexican prison for the murder. .... Ramn Mercader died in Havana in 1978 of cancer.
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IN NICARAGUA - NYTimes.com  Apr 28, 1985 ... (For reasons that elude me, anyone defending freedom of expression, free ... By its fifth year, Fidel Castro's Cuba had become a Soviet satellite. ... And despite severe censorship, criticism can be found in La Prensa, the weekly Paso a ..... It is called the Oriental Market - Nicaragua's black-market heaven.
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TorrijosCarter Treaties - Wikipedia  The TorrijosCarter Treaties are two treaties signed by the United States and Panama in Washington, D.C., on September 7, 1977, which abrogated the HayBunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903. The treaties guaranteed that Panama would gain control of the Panama Canal after 1999, ending the control of the canal that the U.S. .... By 1977, its debt to American banks alone stood at $1.8 billion.
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Nikita Khrushchev - New World Encyclopedia  Jun 13, 2014 ... Following his ousting, Khrushchev spent seven years under house arrest. He died at his home in Moscow on September 11, 1971, and is interred in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. ... He made a dangerous gamble in 1962, over Cuba, which almost made a Third World War inevitable. Agriculture...
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Che Guevara's ideals lose ground in Cuba | Reuters  Oct 8, 2007 ... "Pioneers for Communism: we will be like Che," Cuban children chant ... in a Bolivian jungle and executed on October 9, 1967, Argentine-born doctor ... a national hero in Cuba, where he joined Fidel Castro in the guerrilla uprising ... year, many Cubans appear more concerned with making ends meet in an...
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A 1913 pre-hostility meeting of (Left to right) Generals Obregn ...  The only known photograph of Billy the Kid, who was killed at 21. .... George Smith Patton, IV (December 24, 1923  June 27, 2004) was a Major General in the United ... Pershing had crossed the Mexican border and was chasing Pancho Villa. .... Pancho Villa's last words: Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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Leon Trotsky | Jewish Virtual Library  Ramon Mercader assassinated Trotsky in Mexico in 1940. ... Once abroad, he moved to London to join Georgy Plekhanov, Vladimir Lenin, Julius Martov ... As Trotsky later explained [4], after the 1917 revolution, In order not to oblige my sons to .... held a conference in Prague and expelled their opponents from the party.
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American USSR - Manuel Noriega - Liquidated  The 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States removed him from power; he was ... Noriega's U.S. prison sentence ended in September 2007; pending the .... On December 15, 1989, the PRD-dominated legislature spoke of "a state of war" ... In April 1992 a trial was held in Miami, Florida, at the United States District...
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Pancho Villa - Schoenherr Family  When his father died in 1893, Doroteo became the man of the house until an ... He did well as a bandit, robbing payrolls and shipments of money from mines around ... But Villa and Orozco were men of action, and they eventually provoked an .... Mexican state of Durango; assassinated on July 20, 1923, while driving his car...
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Colombia Presidential Candidate Slain by Gunman Aboard Airliner ...  Apr 27, 1990 ... BOGOTA, Colombia, April 26 A former leftist guerrilla leader who joined the ... Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez, died one hour after being admitted to a ... Mr. Pizarro, 38 years old, was the third presidential contender killed since ... The group became a political party, with Mr. Pizarro as its candidate for the...
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Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald - Nov 24, 1963 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov 24, 1963. ... President John F. Kennedy, is shot to death by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. ... Thirty minutes after that, he was arrested in a movie theater by police. ... In October 1966, the Texas Court of Appeals reversed the decision on the grounds of...
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Hemingway's Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea | Literary Traveler  Oct 1, 2002 ... As the sun rises over the defunct fishing processing plant on the hill ... Everyone in Cojimar, Cuba seems headed for the water. .... simple lives and told the type of wonderful tales that inspired him. ... Llera offers to show me the town. .... Gregorio Fuentes died in Cojimar in January 2002 at the age of 104.
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'I shot the cruellest dictator in the Americas' - BBC News - BBC.com  May 28, 2011 ... The only surviving assassin of Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, tells the BBC's ... Before his assassination on a dark highway on 30 May 1961, the Dominican ... Taking power in 1930, his hold over the country was absolute. ... General Imbert - he was given the military rank later to enable him to receive a...
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Scarface (1983) - IMDb  Crime  In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs ..... Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds ... Q: Why did Tony say his mother was dead when he was being interrogated at the beginning? Q: What ... This is one of my all time favorites.
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The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo - PBS  Diego Rivera was born in December 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico. ... Rivera and Kahlo had been married less than a year when he had his first ... By 1936, Stalin had consolidated his power in Russia, and he chased the rival Trotsky into exile. ... asylum in Mexico, and the Russian and his wife Natalia lived with Rivera and...
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Chiricahua Apache leader Victorio is killed south of El Paso, Texas ...  On this day in History, Chiricahua Apache leader Victorio is killed south of El ... of evading the best efforts of the Mexican and American armies to capture him, ... Some claimed an Indian scout employed by the Mexican army killed the famous warrior. .... wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending Cold War tensions.