Category: The Third Flame: From Mexico’s Red Dawn to Latin America’s Ashes (1942–2000)

In this timeline, Leon Trotsky does not fall to Ramón Mercader’s icepick in August 1940. Instead, his security apparatus, reinforced by sympathizers within Mexico’s left-wing labor movement, uncovers the Stalinist plot against him. Mercader is intercepted and captured, exposing the extent of Soviet infiltration in Mexico. This revelation, combined with growing tensions between the Mexican…

In our world, Leon Trotsky died in exile—his revolution extinguished with an icepick. But in this timeline, he survives. In 1942, as the world burns in war, Mexico erupts in a socialist uprising unlike any before—neither Stalinist nor capitalist, but forged in Trotsky’s vision of permanent revolution. What begins as a beacon of hope soon…