Lshortly before she traveled as a doctor to Lebanon, to help the Palestinian camps, Che Guevara’s 63-year-old daughter, Aleida, traveled to Greece to place the collector’s album “Ernesto Che Guevara – Family Album” present, co-published by NEW STAR. with Che Guevara Studies Center and Ocean Press publications, and preliminary work for the ambitious project of publishing the answers of the great revolution in Greek with NEW STAR. At the same time as the album, the book “Che Guevara – Present”, with texts on Politics and the Revolution, was released in Greece.
The news is that of the 113 rare photographs in the album, some of them are being published for the first time in the world. Aleida Guevara, who spoke in Athens, sulking, with passion, adoration and respect for her father and she unceasingly believes in the ideals of the Cuban revolution with which she was raised as a whole, as she told us, her mother – also a rebel. , who “loved my father very much” – he also told “little stories that our parents told us and that are part of the family’s collective memory”.
Celia was the second child with his second Cuban wife, after Aleida. She was called “the third girl”, because Che had the first daughter with the Peruvian economist Ilda Gadea, Ildita. “So the time had come for the birth of the first boy in the family. Camilo. It was a beast, five kilos,” said Aleida. “The midwife comes out with the baby in her arms and says, ‘Congratulations, Commander.’ My dad was so nervous that he suddenly gets up, and at the same time a very good friend of my mom tries to get up next to him to congratulate him. He forces her to sit down again, tells her “congratulations” and offers her a cigar. My father was so nervous, he didn’t know what he was doing at that moment,” revealed the daughter, emphasizing an unknown side: “My father was also a great mathematician. In the evenings he studied mathematics!’
Che Guevara, in addition to his revolutionary activity per se in the field, wrote incessantly from a young age. His writings also include a philosophical dictionary which, according to his daughter, he never finished because he was constantly adding to it. He had also written Philosophical Notes, where he incorporates the thought he developed from his contact with international philosophy (“My father studied all the Greek philosophers and managed them with relative ease “). He also wrote critical notes on the economy. In books on Marxism and Economics, his views are collected from his speeches. At the end of these 10 years that we devoted ourselves to his work, we managed to publish the seven volumes that include the most important part of his work. It is an anthology designed for the new generations, to be easy to manage, to find out what they are looking for”, said Aleida Guevara, referring to “All Ernesto Che Guevara”, already translated into Greek and divided into chronological in. teenagers – his young years (1947-1956), in the Guerrilla War in Cuba (1956-1959), in the transitional years to Power (1959-1961), in the Socialist transition in Cuba (1961-1962 and 1963-1964) , a period as Minister of Industry in the young Cuban revolutionary government, in his struggle in the Congo (1965-1966).The last volume, entitled “Solidarity and Internationalism”, describes the last phase of his life (1966-1967).
Che Guevara with his family in their home in Havana.
Aleida Guevara, who was raised with the ideals of her parents, during her visit to Athens could not mention the bloodshed in Palestine. In ’59 Che visited Gaza. He had not written much about this trip. From the testimony of the elderly Palestinians who met him today, we understand that, after arriving in the Strip, they tried to show him the insurmountable situation they already had at the time, with thousands of displaced farmers from Israel. “And my father told them “no”. He refused. He did not want to show his condition. He asked to be shown the place where the people are preparing for the resistance. “I want you to show me the weapons factory for the Palestinian resistance,” he told them.
In ’66, while writing about Latin America and Africa, “he also wrote an article about the Middle East, where he prophetically described it as a volcano ready to explode and in the coming years an important factor in the explosion of the whole world. He also spoke about the need to unite the Arab people”, summed up Aleida Guevara.
From the presentation of the album with rare and unpublished photographs of Che Guevara in Athens.
During his mini tour in Greece, Dr. Aleida Guevara will visit Patras today (Wednesday), where she will meet the Mayor Kostas Peletidis. As part of her visit to the Achaean capital, she will lay flowers at the monument of Nikos Belogiannis, in Pantokrator Square. Tomorrow he will meet the Greek-Cuban Friendship Group of the Hellenic Parliament, he will visit the Educational Center “Charilaos Florakis” (EKXF) in Chalandri and he will participate in an event with the Communities of KETHEA Parents and ex-users in detoxification at the . STUDIO New Star Cinema (Sparti and Stavropoulou 33, Amerikis Square). On Friday, Aleida Guevara will travel to Veria, to meet the Mayor, Costas Borgiazidis and the Vice Governor of Imathia, Konstantinos Kalaitzidis.
The daughter of the great revolutionary visited our country again in 2022, so she granted a torrential interview, de profundis to Popaganda and Ioanna Kleftoyannis, entitled: “My father knew how to love. That’s why he was able to be a formidable revolutionary”, where he spoke about the revolutions, the man, father, husband, the outspoken man behind the legend, but also “Uncle Fidel” and the contemporary challenges states of Cuba.