Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

New Film Shot in Mexico City Takes on Trotsky Assassination

It's a tale of love, betrayal and history's most famous murder by ice pick.

The plot to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the Soviet revolutionary-turned-exiled dissident, in Mexico City in 1940, is at the heart of "El Elegido" ("The Chosen"), an upcoming movie that's set to wrap shooting in this capital in the coming days.

Told from the perspective of Ramon Mercader, the Spaniard who wielded the murder weapon, it recounts how the young communist recruited and trained by the Soviet secret service seduced an American woman who was close to Trotsky to get to his target . . .

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