Marina Arismendi

Ana Marina Arismendi Dubinsky (born 30 May 1949, Montevideo) is an Uruguayan teacher and politician of the Communist Party. She served as Minister of Social Development from 2005 to 2010, and from 2015 to 2020, in the first and second government of President Tabaré Vázquez. Biography Arismendi was born on May 30, 1949, as the daughter of Rodney Arismendi, 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 Cuban Revolution "Camilo Cienfuegos". During the civic-military dictatorship she went into exile to East Germany, where she obtained a Bachelor of Social Science.