Mexican Exhibit Displays Famous Exiles' Papers E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press
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A 1955 Mexican immigration document of Cuba's Fidel Castro is displayed as part of the National Migration Institute exhibit marking the 20th anniversary of the organization's creation, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. The exhibit of 16 personalities that include Castro, Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky and Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Augusto Cesar Sandino, is a sample of the nearly 500,000 records that make up the institute's archive. (Eduardo Verdugo, AP)

MEXICO CITY — Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro, Augusto Cesar Sandino.

All spent time in Mexico, a country that's welcomed waves of political exiles over the decades and is now paying homage to some of the most famous of them.

In 1929, while he fighting a U.S. military occupation of Nicaragua, Sandino received permission to shelter in Mexico from President Emilio Portes Gil. In 1937, Trotsky came to Mexico using painter Diego Rivera as a reference. In 1955, a Cuban by the name of Fidel Castro entered Mexico as a tourist, telling authorities he was on vacation.

The dates and facts are recorded in migration records preserved in Mexico's historic archives and put on display to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the country's National Institute of Migration.

Exhibit is on ground floor of National Migration Institute's main offices, on 1832 Homero St. in Mexico City's Polanco neighborhood, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays until Nov. 29.

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