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Ramón Mercader
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NKVD agent, murderer of Leon Trotsky
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Ramón Mercader, born Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río in Barcelona, was a Spanish and Soviet citizen who worked as a spy, politician, and communist. He held the military rank of colonel and was a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia and the Communist Party of Catalonia. Mercader participated in the Spanish Civil War and was convicted of murder. He received the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.
Mercader spoke Spanish and Catalan. He was the son of Caridad Mercader and the sibling of María Mercader. He died of lung cancer in Havana in 1978 and was buried in Kuntsevo Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1914
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Cours moins vite, camarade, le vieux monde est devant toi!
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing
· 2012 · cited 14,779x
- 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2016 · cited 11,107x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,577x
- 2016 ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure
· 2016 · cited 5,398x
- Liver fibrosis
· 2005 · cited 4,580x
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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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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.