Interview With Aleida Guevara, Che’s Daughter
Dr Aleida Guevara’s famous surname still evokes adulation among admirers of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, the Argentine revolutionary. His iconic image, with his beret, intense, faraway look and brooding visage, snapped by Alberto Korda, has become a symbol of resistance and idealism. Beneath a black-and-white photograph of Che’s, which has pride of place in Politburo member MA Baby’s house in Thiruvananthapuram, Aleida, a medical practitioner like her father, settled down to talk about her father, his legacy and how present-day Cuba continues to be stand up to the economic blockade imposed by the US.