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.
- Occupation
- spy, politician, assassin, communist
- Citizenship
- Spain, Soviet Union
- Born
- January 25, 1913, February 7, 1913
- Died
- October 18, 1978
