Aguayo Street (Coyoacán)

Residential street in Coyoacán, Mexico City. In Hayden Herrera’s Frida Cristina Kahlo’s house here is where Frida and Leon Trotsky meet during their 1937 affair.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Frida	Hayden Herrera	setting	Cristina’s house, the secret meeting place of Frida and Trotsky.

Frida — Hayden Herrera (1983)

Source: Frida - A Biography of Frida Kahlo · Original · Readwise highlight

A few weeks after the end of the Dewey Commission sessions, the coy flirtation had become a full-fledged love affair. The couple met at Cristina’s house on Aguayo Street.

• Role: setting
• In the book: Cristina Kahlo has recently moved to the house, probably bought for her by Rivera. In Chapter 13 Trotsky once plans to slip over the garden wall at night and run there after Cristina, but is stopped. After the Dewey Commission sessions of spring 1937 it becomes where he and Frida meet in secret, until Natalia grows suspicious by late June.
• Why it matters: The house links the two betrayals around Frida, Cristina’s affair with Diego and Frida’s with Trotsky.