He is not an ordinary patient: he is Lev Trotsky, the former commander of the Red Army, the hero of the revolution and of the civil war, who has now become the thorn in Stalin's side, who has made a vacuum around his rival, forcing him to flee from one country to another and pursued by a death sentence issued by the paranoid and ruthless bureaucrat. The ambulance transports both the injured to the Cruz Verde hospital and the activity at the bedside of the dying man - because his condition immediately appears desperate - is hectic, with the best doctors scrambling to save him, and a plane ready to leave from the United States, with a neurosurgery luminary on board. The man also bleeds from the head, because the guards of the house, recalled by the chilling scream of the attacked one, entered the room and started hitting the intruder with the gun grips, until the man with the skull smashed by the ice axe order them to stop, because if they kill him, no one will ever know who is he and why he is there.

The victim who did not immediately faint but had several minutes of lucidity, in which he tried to defend himself despite being already semi-paralyzed, bit him in the hand, planting his teeth in his flesh - a sign he will carry forever. There is also another wounded man, less serious but still battered: he is the aggressor. In the studio, they find a lot of blood everywhere, desperate people, and a seriously injured man: the shovel of a mountaineering ice axe broke through the parietal bone, lacerated his meninges, and penetrated several centimeters into the right side of the brain, remaining stuck there. It is a just after 6 pm on the 20 th of August 1940, when an ambulance arrives at Avenida Rio Churubusco in the suburb of Coyoacán in Mexico City, and rescuers enter in a house that is a kind of fortress protected by armed guards.

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