"... The peoples of Mexico and Cuba share a long revolutionary bond, from
the post-revolutionary period in Mexico when Cuban communist and
revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella was assassinated in Mexico City by Cuban
dictator Gerardo Machado; to the Grandma expedition of 1956 which departed
from Veracruz for Cuba with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 others on
board, including President Sheinbaum's own grandfather and uncle, Chon and
Solomon Sheinbaum, who were members of the Cuban Communist Party in the
1920's before being deported to Mexico; to the many solidarity events which
have taken place across Mexico this week in honor of José MartÃ's birthday"
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The Mysterious Assassination of Julio Antonio Mella, January 10, 1929
" After being expelled from the University of Havana, Mella fled Machado's
repression to Mexico where he wrote for a number of newspapers including
Tren Blindado (Armoured Train, a Trotskyist symbol).
At the time of his death he was trying to overthrow the government of
Machado. This cause was an embarrassment to the Cuban Communist Party which
was trying to gain power by establishing a modus viviendo with Machado.
What further disturbed the Cuban communists was that they felt he had
fallen under Leon Trotsky's influence.
Mella was assassinated while walking home late at night with companion Tina
Modotti. The Mexican government tried to implicate her in the murder.
Muralist Diego Rivera played a very active role in defending her and
exposing the Mexican government's crude attempt to frame her. It is
unclear whether Mella was murdered by the dictatorial Cuban government, if
his death had been brought about by Trotsky-Stalin Communist Party
feuding, or by a combination of these mutual interests.
While the current Cuban government firmly believes Mella was murdered by
Machado agents, it is widely believed that Italian communist Vittorio
Vidali was the assassin. He had been sent by the NKVD to discipline the
Mexican Communist Party."
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