Rodney Arismendi

Rodney Arismendi and Nicolae Ceauşescu.

Rodney Arismendi (Río Branco, Uruguay, 21 March 1913 - Montevideo, 27 December 1989) was a Uruguayan politician and political writer.

Biography

In 1930, he joined the Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU), which he represented at the Parliament between 1946 and 1973.

Since 1955, he was secretary-general of the (PCU); in 1971 the party became a constituent of the Frente Amplio. In 1975 he was expelled from Uruguay by the military dictatorship and he was exiled in the Soviet Union.

He was considered one of the most important Latin American ideologues of Communism.

His daughter Marina Arismendi is also a PCU politician.

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