The Guardian published an interview with Aleida Guevara, Che Guevara's daughter. One of the great things about Aleida Guevara is that instead of turning away from her father's history, she has embraced it by becoming a doctor, a committed Marxists, and supporter of Cuba's Revolution.
In the interview she discusses how she resents that his image has been commercialized and co-opted by fashion designers, advertising agencies, and other capitalist interests. She very poignantly discusses the last time she ever saw her father, as a disguised guest at a family dinner who tended to her wounds after she fell off the table, ""I was only five. But I knew that this man loved me in a very special way. I didn't know that it was my father, though, and he couldn't tell me."
The stories that get told the least about revolutionaries are of revolutionaries as nerds, brothers, sisters, spouses,lovers. These legendary and iconic people not only inspired masses and generations of people, but also tucked kids into bed, made up fantastic stories for their children, played chess, and courted the person they loved. One of my favorite things Aleida states about her father in this article was that, "To be a proper revolutionary, you have to be a romantic. His capacity to give himself to the cause of others was at the centre of his beliefs – if we could only follow his example, the world would be a much more beautiful place."
You can check out the entire article here
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