Dr Aleida Guevara March, daughter of the Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara and his wife Aleida March, addressed a packed Liberty Hall on Monday (1st October) during her recent visit to Ireland during which she launched the English version of her mother’s book ‘Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara.’ Dr Guevara who is a paediatrician at the William Soler Paediatric Hospital in Havana, spoke movingly of her mother, also Aleida and Che who met when they were both activists in the 26th July Movement in Cuba in the mid-1950’s and of their deep relationship before her father was executed in Bolivia in 1967.
During her visit also attended Leinster House for a meeting with TDs and Senators and opened the second annual Che Do Bheatha Festival in Kilkee, county Clare.
Dr Guevara was a guest of the Galway Trades Council at the All Ireland Senior Hurling Final in Croke Park on Sunday (30th September). Her and Che’s Lynch family background is rooted in Galway. She signed hundreds of copies of her mother’s book at the Liberty Hall event and at a meeting organised earlier that day by the Irish Trade Unions Cuba Solidarity Committee, in Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin.
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