Communisim Through My Eyes: My FatherCommunism Through My Eyes: My Father Robert Trujillo, 1903 1986 by Mary Lou Salazar, PhD is the fascinating story of an iconic but little known figure in Colorado's political and social history: Mary Lou's father, Robert Trujillo, became a communist in 1936 during the hardships of the Great Depression, later becoming the Chairman of the Communist Party in Colorado. He remained a communist for fifty years, until his death in 1986. As his youngest