Aleida Guevara MarchDaughter of the guerrilla fighter Ernesto “Che” Guevara and spokeswoman for the Cuban regime, will have its own program on the Beirut-based pan-Arab channel Al Mayadeen from 2024.
According to the Cuban Embassy in Lebanon, which reported on the television channel’s announcement made in the presence of Guevara March and the President of the Board of Directors of the Multiplatform, Ghassan Ben Jeddou, The program is titled “Simply with Aleida Guevara.”
According to the note, this is a collaboration between Al Mayadeen and the Ernesto Che Guevara Study Center in Havana, which Aleida directs.
“Aleida Guevara knows that Al Mayadeen has declared from the beginning that it is part of the Global South and that Latin America is an essential pillar because of its militant history,” Ben Jeddou said during the meeting.
He also pointed this out It is an honor for the television station to “offer the international public a space moderated by Aleida Guevara with current comments and personal anecdotes.” in a first season with 54 episodes”.
“Aleida Guevara will address the people from the heart in a simple and sincere way to narrate the past in a language of the present for the sake of the future,” Ben Jeddou added.
Guevara, for his part, was grateful for the opportunity. ““What I like is being able to tell everyone a little more about my father’s life, and if a lot more people get to know Che through this program, that will be wonderful for me,” he said.
Al Mayadeen launched in Lebanon on June 11, 2012 with predominantly news programming. There are reporters in most Arab countries.
Aleida Guevara, a pediatrician by profession, At the beginning of November, he called on Arab countries to go to war against Israel in light of the current conflict between the Hamas group and Tel Aviv. With speeches from her father such as “Patria o Muerte”, “Venceremos” and “Hasta la victoria siempre” and in a video broadcast by Al Mayadeen, the speaker offered to go to the war zone as a doctor.
Days later, during an event with Palestinian representatives at the University of Havana, he added that he could also fight: “We have to go to something else. (…) I am a pediatrician and I can act. There is no problem at all. But beyond that I shoot pretty well. I can aim well and have military training because I come from a military school. I’m here to help you with all of that and more,” he said.