Rodolfo Ghioldi
Argentinian journalist (1897–1985)
Rodolfo José Ghioldi (21 January 1891 – 3 July 1985) was an Argentine politician and journalist who was general-secretary of the Communist Party of Argentina from 1918 to 1924.
Biography
Ghioldi was born in to the family of an Italian socialist immigrant who was a follower of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Ghioldi worked as a teacher until 1916 when he was dismissed from teaching because of his militant activities.
Ghioldi was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Argentina, at the time the International Socialist Party, broke away from the Socialist Party after the October Revolution in Russia. Ghioldi was elected vice-president of the Federation of Socialist Youth (now the Communist Youth Federation) on 21 August 1917. After the party was admitted to the Communist International, Ghioldi was elected as its general secretary.
As a representative of the South American Secretariat of the Communist International, he participated in the communist uprising in Brazil, an uprising to overthrow the regime of Getúlio Vargas, which led to his imprisonment after its failure. In a 2025 article, Anita Leocádia Prestes (the daughter of Luís Carlos Prestes, who led the uprising) accused Ghioldi of betraying his comrades to the police, including her father and his driver, Victor Allen Barron. Rio de Janeiro police chief Filinto Müller claimed that it was Barron who betrayed Prestes, and after Barron fell from the window of the police station to his death it was ruled a suicide.
After years living in exile, Ghioldi returned to Argentina in 1940 with the hopes of building an anti-fascist and democratic front, which led to his arrest and imprisonment.
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