Caridad Mercader

Eustacia María Caridad del Río Hernándeza (29 March 1892 – 1975), better known as Caridad del Río, Caridad Mercader or Caritat Mercader, was a Spanish communist militant and an agent of the Soviet NKVD.[1] She is also known for being the mother of Ramón Mercader, the assassin of Leon Trotsky,[2] and for having personally participated in the operation.[3]

Caridad Mercacer
Mercader and her brothers, c.1895
Born
Eustacia María Caridad del Río Hernández

(1892-03-29)29 March 1892
Died1975 (1976) (aged 82)
Paris, France
NationalitySpanish, Cuban
Employer NKVD
Known forHer involvement in the assassination of Leon Trotsky and being the mother of Ramón Mercader, the assassin
Political partyUnified Socialist Party of Catalonia
Spouse(s)Pablo Mercader Marina
ChildrenJorge, Ramón, Pablo, Montserrat and Luis

Notes

  1. Juárez 2008, p. 112.
  2. Juárez 2008, p. 103.
  3. Renton 2004, p. 140.
gollark: I'm going to make it a distributed system, so it's kind of important.
gollark: Meh.
gollark: Yes; each socket no longer gets its own ID (they were useless) and I'm using collision-resistant message IDs.
gollark: I mean, by me. Obviously it needs its own.
gollark: Er, *any* documenting?

References

  • Juárez, Javier (2008). Patria: una española en el KGB (in Spanish). Barcelona: Random House Mondadori. ISBN 978-84-8306-763-5.
  • Renton, Dave (2004). Trotsky. London: Haus Publishing. ISBN 1-904341-62-4.


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