Aleida Guevara March

Aleida Guevara is a Cuban pediatrician and the eldest of four children of Ernesto Che Guevara with his second wife, Aleida March. Ernesto Guevara had another daughter, Hilda Beatriz Guevara, born in 1956, with his first wife, Hilda Gadea.

Aleida is a doctor of medicine, specialized in pediatrics. She works at the "William Soler" Pediatric Hospital and is a collaborator at the Che Guevara Studies Center.

She has practiced her profession as an internationalist physician in Angola, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. Likewise, she is an activist of the Communist Party of Cuba. In his film Sicko, Michael Moore interviews her about the philosophy that sustains Cuba's universal health care system.

Her father and her people are the two constants in Aleida Guevara's life. For her people, Aleida is a pediatrician. Medicine contributes to Cuban development and is a way of giving thanks for everything received: affection, joy, dignity. Because of her father, Aleida is known throughout the world, although she does not work solely as a daughter of. She speaks much about Che, but also about herself: about her work, her dreams, her struggle, and her values. Values that Che represented and that are more relevant today than ever.