11 Facts About Alcira Argumedo

Alcira Susana Argumedo was an Argentine sociologist, academic and was member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.

Alcira Argumedo was nominated as a candidate for president on the Proyecto Sur ticket for the 2011 general elections.

Alcira Argumedo enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, and earned a degree in Sociology in 1965.

Alcira Argumedo continued to teach, and wrote numerous treatises on the impact of globalization in the Third World during the early 1970s.

The March 1976 coup and the subsequent Dirty War compelled Argumedo to leave Argentina in 1978, and she sought exile in Mexico.

Alcira Argumedo worked in the Latin American Institute of Transnational Studies, published numerous articles for IPECAL, and served as adviser to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Juan Somavia in a discussion regarding New World Information and Communication Order hosted by UNESCO.

Alcira Argumedo returned to Argentina following elections in 1983, and in 1987, resumed her post in the University of Buenos Aires faculty and joined the National Research Council.

Alcira Argumedo was a founding member of a center-left political party, Frente Grande, in 1993, with Congressman Carlos Alvarez, film-maker Pino Solanas, human rights activist Graciela Fernandez Meijide and others disaffected with President Carlos Menem's turn to the right.

Alcira 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.

Alcira Argumedo was among the co-founders in 2007 of Proyecto Sur, a leftist political party founded and led by Pino Solanas.

Alcira Argumedo was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 2009 for the City of Buenos Aires, and became part of the leadership in the Education Committee.