Alcira Susana Argumedo (7 May 1940 – 2 May 2021) was an Argentine sociologist, academic and was member of the

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. She was nominated as a candidate for president on the

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ticket for the 2011 general elections.

Life and times

Argumedo was born in

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in 1940. She enrolled at the

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, and earned a degree in

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in 1965. She taught at her alma mater's Faculty of Philosophy and Letters between 1968 and 1974, and served as Secretary of Culture by

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Governor

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during his brief 1973-74 tenure. She continued to teach, and wrote numerous treatises on the impact of

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in the

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during the early 1970s. The

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and the subsequent

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compelled Argumedo to leave Argentina in 1978, and she sought exile in

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. She worked in the Latin American Institute of Transnational Studies (ILET), published numerous articles for IPECAL, and served as adviser to

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and

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in a discussion regarding

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hosted by

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. She returned to Argentina following elections in 1983, and in 1987, resumed her post in the University of Buenos Aires faculty and joined the

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. Argumedo was a founding member of a center-left political party,

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, in 1993, with Congressman Carlos Álvarez, film-maker

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, human rights activist

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and others disaffected with President

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's turn to the right. She became a regular contributor to '' Página/12'', and joined

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laureate

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and others in the Forum for Thought and Social Construction. Argumedo was named in 2005 to the board of directors of the Institute for the Site of Remembrance, which administers the largest former detention center used during the Dirty War as a museum. Argumedo was among the co-founders in 2007 of

, a leftist political party founded and led by Pino Solanas. She was elected to the

in 2009 for the

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, and became part of the leadership in the Education Committee. Following Solanas' departure from the

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-led Progressive Front in June 2011, he nominated Argumedo as the Proyecto Sur candidate for president in the 2011 elections.

Bibliography

*''El Tercer Mundo: historia, problemas y perspectivas'' (CEAL, 1971). *''La socialización del poder y de la economía'' (1973) *''Monopolios y Tercer Mundo'' (CEAL, 1975), with Pablo Franco. *''Los laberintos de la crisis: América Latina: poder transnacional y comunicaciones'' (Folios/ILET, 1985). *''Un horizonte sin certezas: América Latina ante la Revolución Científico-Técnica''. (Puntosur/Ilet, 1987). *''Los silencios y las voces en América Latina: notas sobre el pensamiento nacional y popular''. (Colihue, 1993).

References

External links

Alcira Argumedo

Proyecto Sur Website
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