Tag History/Natural History

How I stumbled onto the story of a secret agent waiting in Santa Fe to kill Trotsky in Mexico

Josif Grigulevich was a Soviet assassin, saboteur and master manipulator of the media and politics in Latin America, Spain, the United States and Italy, 1933 to 1953. During his stint in New Mexico, mid 1938 to early 1940, he laid low, hung out at two pharmacies near the Santa Fe Plaza and might have had a fling with the daughter of one of the owners.

What you need to know, July 3, 2025: Shooting fish in a barrel

We’ve heard accusations that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution in Gaza attracts starving people to dangerous locations where they become targets, but these were just suppositions based just on shooting events. Now evidence has been gathered to show that these shootings are intentional and that Americans participate in them.