This leader of the raid also edited the communist nespaper El Machete, was an associate of Diego Rivera, and led the Mexican Communist Party after Rivera was thrown out.  
In May of 1940 he and a group of militant followers attacked Leon Trotsky's fortified house outside Mexico City, peppering his rooms with machine gunfire, throwing grenades, and detonating dynamite.  Somehow Trotsky and his wife escaped without a scratch.  This leader of the raid also edited the communist nespaper El Machete, was an associate of Diego Rivera, and led the Mexican Communist Party after Rivera was thrown out.  Like Rivera, he was also an artist, with murals entitled The March of Humanity and Portrait of the Bourgeoisie considered to be some of his best work. FTP, who was this Mexican activist and artist, the last of the great Mexican muralists?
In May of 1940 he and a group of militant followers attacked Leon Trotsky's fortified house outside Mexico City, peppering his rooms with machine gunfire, throwing grenades, and detonating dynamite.  
David Alfaro Siqueiros