From Leon Trotsky to Luis Bunuel to Salvador Allende's widow, Mexico has a long tradition of offering asylum to political exiles -- right down to newly arrived Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales.

(CNN Español) — Antes de ser detenido tras aprobarse una moción de vacancia en su contra, Pedro Castillo solicitó asilo político a México, según lo confirmó este jueves Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Esteban Volkov Bronstein, grandson and guardian of the memory of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky, died in Mexico on June 17, the Spanish daily El Pais reported on June 18. He was 97. Born in Yalta, ...

Esteban Volkov, the grandson of Leon Trotsky, seen in March 2003 at the home-turned-museum where the Russian revolutionary leader was assassinated - Copyright POOL ...

In 1936, when Norway followed the suit of many another nation and asked restless Revolutionary Léon Trotsky to leave its shores, Mexico’s famed Muralist Diego Rivera arranged to have the exile go to ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — 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 ...

The late great Earl of Birkenhead, “The Galloper,” when Secretary of State for India prior to Joseph Stalin’s break with Leon Trotsky (TIME, Oct. 10, 1927), once openly remarked with characteristic ...

In the summer of 1937 Leon Despres, then 29 years old, went with his wife, Marian, on a three-week vacation to Mexico. A lawyer friend, Albert Goldman, had asked them to deliver a letter and some ...

This is the second part of the lecture on the most recent developments in Security and the Fourth International, delivered by Eric London to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) ...

After losing a power struggle with Josef Stalin, the Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky fled to Mexico. The plans to eliminate ...