Ramón Mercader
NKVD agent, murderer of Leon Trotsky
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Updated 2026-05-29
Spanish communist operative who walked into history—literally—by assassinating Leon Trotsky with an ice axe in Mexico City, 1940. Spent two decades in prison for it.
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Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río 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.
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