Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Ramón Mercader across 5 places, from 1913 to 1978.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978) 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.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Ramón Mercader is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Ramón Mercader was documented, and when
7 February 1913exact date
Maresmeattested“Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río was born on 7 February 1913 in the town of Argentona, in Maresme county, Catalonia, Spain to Eustacia María Caridad del Río Hernández (aka Caridad Mercader), daughter of a Cantabrian merchant who became rich…”source: Wikipedia: Ramón Mercader
7 February 1913exact date
Captaincy General of Cubaattested“Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río was born on 7 February 1913 in the town of Argentona, in Maresme county, Catalonia, Spain to Eustacia María Caridad del Río Hernández (aka Caridad Mercader), daughter of a Cantabrian merchant who became rich…”source: Wikipedia: Ramón Mercader
October 1939month
Mexico Cityattested“In October 1939, Mercader moved to Mexico City and persuaded Ageloff to join him there.”source: Wikipedia: Ramón Mercader
1961year
Soviet Unionattested“In 1961, Mercader moved to the Soviet Union and subsequently was presented with the country's highest decoration, Hero of the Soviet Union, personally by Alexander Shelepin, the head of the KGB.”source: Wikipedia: Ramón Mercader
In each of these, a source puts Ramón Mercader and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Ramón Mercader was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1938year
Parismentioned“In 1938, whilst a student at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne), with the help of NKVD Agent Mark Zborowski, Mercader befriended Sylvia Ageloff, a young intellectual from Brooklyn, New York, who also was a confidante of Trotsky in Pa…”source: Wikipedia: Ramón Mercader
1938year
Brooklynmentioned“In 1938, whilst a student at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne), with the help of NKVD Agent Mark Zborowski, Mercader befriended Sylvia Ageloff, a young intellectual from Brooklyn, New York, who also was a confidante of Trotsky in Pa…”source: Wikipedia: Ramón Mercader
September 1939month
Brooklynmentioned“In 1939, a man from the Bureau of the Fourth International communicated with Mercader; and the student Ageloff had returned to Brooklyn in September 1939, where Mercader joined her under the assumed Canadian identity of Frank Jacson, fac…”source: Wikipedia: Ramón Mercader
6 May 1960exact date
Mexico Citymentioned“After almost 20 years in prison, Mercader was released from Mexico City's Palacio de Lecumberri prison on 6 May 1960.”source: Wikipedia: Ramón Mercader
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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