Aleida Guevara spoke on the subject during her visit to Venezuela, where she was part of the official events for the birth of Simón Bolívar.
Arequipa, Peru – the withdrawal of the statues of Ernesto Che Guevara and the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro of a park in Mexico City motivated the reaction of the daughter of the Argentine guerrilla, Aleida Guevara March, who described the encounter between both symbols of the Castro regime as a privilege for the Mexican people.
Guevara March spoke on the subject with the medium Publimetro During his visit to Caracas, Venezuela, where he was part of the official events for the birth of Simón Bolívar.
“The statues do not have great importance for family members, but for the people yes. They are two men who are out of limits, that is, they are men who are neither Cubans nor Mexican, are universal,” said the spokeswoman of the Cuban regime.
The daughter of the Argentine guerrilla also commented that the relevance of the statues is symbolic, transcends local policy and must be valued by the Mexican people.
“The Mexican people have the privilege that they met there, in that place. It is simply that, it is a historical reminder for the Mexican people, especially. They are the ones who have to decide,” he said.
Before the question of whether they would like to return the statues to their place of origin, Aleida Guevara March responded with disapplying: “What they decide.”
In recent months several statements of Che’s daughter have generated a stir in social networks.
In an interview for the communication space Voices in struggle, published in July 2024, spoke about the existing crisis in Cuba, the low wages paid by the State and high food prices.
On the island, he explained, there is a “serious” economic problem because when the CUC was eliminated, the previous convertible weight, “economists did not give foot with a ball” and now, in addition to the national currency, there are another four, including the dollar and the euro.
Guevara March, who is a pediatrician withdrawn, says that her salary is just over 4,000 pesos (approximately $ 12 in the informal market), which in the current Cuban context is insufficient to buy the basic basket of a person.
“A cheese costs you 7,000 (20 dollars), an egg cardboard came to cost 3,000 ($ 9), now it is going down. But tell me, or as egg or do something else, but I can’t do not, it is not possible,” says the spokeswoman for the dictatorship, whose origin and links with the Castro allow a life of privileges and trips outside the island.
At this time the economic situation in Cuba is “very, very difficult,” adds Guevara March, seeking a common citizen image that crosses the same vicissitudes of the people.
“The salary we perceive the state workers does not give to live and that is a serious problem in a socialist society. You have to solve that. I do not know if the salary increases. I think no, the right thing would be to control prices,” he said.
On the other hand, after his participation last February 2024 in the World Social Forum, in Nepal, representing the island, he announced that at the end of May he would attend an event, without further details, in South Korea. “It is the first time that they invite a communist to speak,” he roamed.
Also, after the violent attack by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas against Israel and the retaliation actions executed by this last state, the Cuban He issued a message aimed at Arab governments.
“The peoples of the Arab world … what do you expect, what are you waiting for. We are far away, kilometers away, but you are there, and today it is with Gaza, with Palestine, and tomorrow who will be. If you allow Israel to continue doing what you want, where this will stop this. Are you really thinking? You have to be united as a people. You are defending your blood, your culture, your life, you cannot forget that,” he said.
Guevara referred to Israel as “the worst of humanity” and days later Mariela Castro’s words secondeddaughter of the dictator Raúl Castro, when in a public meeting at the University of Havana urged to make “much more acute, more radical pressures” against Israel.
