Rodney Arismendi

Tibaldo Rodney Arismendi Carrasco was a Uruguayan politician and political writer who was born in Río Branco, Uruguay and died in Montevideo.

Biography

In 1930, he joined the Communist Party of Uruguay, which he represented at the Parliament between 1947 and 1973.
From 1955, he was secretary-general of the PCU; in 1971 the party became a constituent of the Frente Amplio. In 1974 he was imprisoned and 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.

Works

La filosofía del marxismo y el señor Haya de la Torre Para un prontuario del dólar Problemas de una revolución continental Un instante de transición hacia batallas más altas Lenin, la revolución y América Latina Insurgencia juvenil Sobre la enseñanza, la literatura y el arte Enseñanza democrática

''Ocho corazones latiendo''