Seventy two years ago today, a young revolutionary-minded Spaniard strolled into an office in a Coyoacan home and plunged a ice axe into the head of an old revolutionary Russian. A day later, Leon Trotsky died as a result of the wounds inflicted by the pick axe. His home today remains largely as it looked … Continue reading Axes and Exiles
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The Trotsky Museum
I've been to the Leon Totsky Museum in Coyoacan three times. The first was in the summer of 2003, but I came away with just one photo, of his mausoleum, because in those days memory cards for digital cameras were prohibitively expensive, so I packed just 256mbs, on which I had to try to capture … Continue reading The Trotsky Museum
The Mexile 