Ana Marina Arismendi Dubinsky (born 30 May 1949,

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an teacher and politician of the

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. She served as Minister of Social Development from 2005 to 2010, and from 2015 to 2020, in the first and second government of President

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Biography

Arismendi was born on May 30, 1949, as the daughter of

Rodney Arismendi Tibaldo Rodney Arismendi Carrasco (21 March 1913, in Río Branco, Uruguay – 27 December 1989, in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan politician and political writer. Biography In 1930, he joined the Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU), which he represent ...

, a historic leader of the Communist Party and founder of the Broad Front, and Rosa Dubinsky. In the early years of her adolescence she joined the Union of Communist Youth and the Committee of Support to the

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"Camilo Cienfuegos". During the civic-military dictatorship she went into exile to

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, where she obtained a Bachelor of Social Science.

Political career

In 1990 she was elected member of the Central Committee of the

for its XXII Congress. She joined the Collective General Secretariat in 1992, and until 2006 she served as General Secretary of the party, after the resignation of

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. She was part of the Broad Front Political Board between 1992 and 1999. In the 1994 general election, she was elected

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. In the following elections, from

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and

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she was re-elected. In 2005, after

assumed the position of

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, she was appointed minister of the newly created Ministry of Social Development.

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Ministra Marina Arismendi
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Fundación Rodney Arismendi

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