Aleida Guevara

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Aleida Guevara (born November 24 1960 in Cuba) is the eldest daughter of four children born to Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March. Ernesto Guevara had another daughter Hilda Beatriz Guevara, born in 1956, with his first wife Hilda Gadea.

She, like her father, is a Marxist and a doctor of medicine. She is based at the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana and has also worked as a physician in Angola, Ecuador and Nicaragua. She is interviewed about the philosophy behind universal health care in Michael Moore's film Sicko.

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• Public health in Cuba

[edit] External Links

• Che Guevara's Daughter Offers Flowers at A-Bomb Monument in Hiroshima May 14 2008, Associated Press.
• Che Guevara's Daughter Voices Cuban Fears That Bush has Country in His Sights by Terri Judd, October 16 2004, The Independent.
• Che, My Father by Angelique Chrisafis, May 3 2002, The Guardian.
• Guevara's Daughter has a Cause, in the Image of her Father June 28 2003.
• Journey Around My Father July 2 2003.
• On the Motorcycle Behind my Father, Che Guevara by Aleida Guevara, October 12 2004, International Herald Tribune.
• Time to Act, Not Just Talk by Aleida Guevara, October 13 2004, The Guardian.