Ramón Mercader Criminal

Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978) was a Catalan communist who assassinated the Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1940, in Mexico. Declassified archives have shown that he was a Soviet agent.He served 20 years in Mexican prison for the murder. Joseph Stalin presented him with an Order of Lenin in absentia. Mercader was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union after his release in 1961.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Jacques Mornard Frank Jacson
Birth date	February 07, 1913
Birth place	Barcelona , Second Spanish Republic
Date of death	October 18, 1978
Place of death	Havana , Cuba