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  • 2017-05-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Trump Offer Asylum to 'Lord Nazi Ruso'? (en)
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  • Spanish-speaking readers might have been led to believe in May 2017 that President Donald Trump offered asylum to white supremacist Russian man living in Cancún who angered locals so much that a mob beat him into a coma. On 22 May, the Mexican news web site SDPNoticias published an article in their satire section, Pitorreo -- which translates roughly to in jest -- saying that Trump had announced at a press conference both that construction had begun on his promised border wall and that he would grant asylum to 42-year-old Aleksei Makeev, a man living in Cancún whom locals had dubbed Lord Nazi Ruso or Lord Nazi Russian. According to the story: No such press conference occurred and construction has not begun on the border wall; the story is satire. Makeev, who was born near Moscow, reportedly made a habit of publishing videos online insulting local women and children, including one in which he can be seen making an offensive gesture at a woman behind her back as she holds her infant child. He recorded other videos with a picture of a Nazi swastika in the background, and some with a swastika drawn on the side of his head. Despite an order from the Mexican National Migration Institute that he leave on 19 January 2017, Makeev continued to live in Cancún, where he worked as a scuba diving instructor. Four months to the day he was supposed to leave, a mob attacked him at his apartment in Cancún and beat him into a coma, for which he was hospitalized. During the incident, Makeev reportedly stabbed an unidentified 19-year-old man, who died at the scene. On 23 May 2017, Quintana Roo State Attorney Miguel Ángel Pech Cen revealed that a warrant had been issued for Makeev's arrest in connection with the younger man's death. At the time of the warrant, Makeev -- who had regained consciousness -- was listed in stable condition at a local hospital. Pech Cen also said that he is investigating not only the people responsible for the attack, but why local police did not do more to protect Makeev leading up to it. His announcement came two days after immigration officials said they would seek help from Russian authorities in deporting Makeev. It is unclear when Makeev moved to Mexico. But in 2013 he was ordered to seek psychiatric treatment in Russia after the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs discovered online footage he posted of himself shoving a child and an elderly woman. (en)
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