Aleida Guevara speaks

Barbara Rojas & Owen Richards, Sydney

Aleida Guevara, 44-year-old daughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, criticised the neoliberal policies of Western governments and called for anti-globalisation activists to study the revolutionary ideas of her father.

Addressing an audience of 2000 people at the Sydney Masonic Centre on May 28, she invited them to rediscover Che by reading his own words.

The forum, organised by Ocean Press, was also the Sydney launch of Aleida Guevara's own book, Chavez: Venezuela and the New Latin America, which is based on several extensive conversations she has had with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

In her address, Guevara pointed to the deepening Venezuelan revolutionary process as proof that in the post-Soviet era, anti-capitalist revolution is still on the agenda.

She explained how Venezuela-Cuba cooperation is a lifeline to both nations.

When questioned by a member of the audience about how Australians could help the Venezuelan process, Guevara called for solidarity activists in the West to prevent their governments from interfering in Venezuela's affairs.

From Green Left Weekly, June 8, 2005.

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From GLW issue 629