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...With Tolstoyan sweep, this historical novel tells the chilling story of the exile of Leon Trotsky, and of Ramón Mercader, who assassinated him in Mexico in 1940....
...Others named are: Geraldo A Ortiz-Jimenez, 25 Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 Juan P....
...Mercader, the Spanish revolutionary who, on Stalin’s orders, assassinated Leon Trotsky in Mexico City before living out his final years in Cuban exile....
...The man tells the story of Ramón Mercader, a Spanish revolutionary swept up in the passions of his country’s civil war who becomes an impersonal “instrument of hate” in the Stalinist cause....
...Luis Vicente León, an economist and pollster with Datanálisis in Caracas tweeted on Thursday: Sadly, the adjustment measures hidden in yesterday’s announcement are insufficient and badly seasoned....
...“Maduro has to pay attention to the radicals,” says Mr León....
...Actions are needed,” says Mr León. There is certainly an air of optimism among business leaders....
...By Patricia De Leon of mergermarket San Miguel (SMC:PHS), purveyor of one of Southeast Asia’s oldest and most popular beers, is not your typical food and beverage company....
...The comment was an apparent reference to Ramón Mercader, the Soviet-picked assassin who in 1940 murdered Leon Trotsky, the exiled communist leader, with an ice pick in Mexico....
...For Wilmers, the defining moment of his career was his supervision of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, in Mexico in August 1940, by Ramón Mercader....
...Trotsky: A Biography By Robert Service Macmillan £25, 624 pages FT Bookshop price: £20 When Ramón Mercader drove an ice axe into Leon Trotsky’s skull at his Mexican home on August 20, 1940, he committed...
...During the hostage handover, Mr Chávez’s interior minister, Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, was filmed offering greetings of solidarity to the Farc guerrilla unit that handed over the captives....
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