{"id":7796,"date":"2022-10-24T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2022-10-24T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:00:09","slug":"aleida-guevara-ches-daughter-we-can-simply-be-useful-and-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/aleida-guevara-ches-daughter-we-can-simply-be-useful-and-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleida Guevara, Che&#8217;s daughter \u2014 &#8220;We can simply be useful and we are&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XzqZgLktD3k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aleida Guevara, daughter of the Che, talks about her experience with Cuba&#8217;s international medical brigades and the importance of solidarity among peoples: \u201cThat gives you extraordinary force as a people, truly, because you can say \u2018We are capable, we are capable of going to any place in the world where our help is needed\u2019. Neither their skin color, nor their religion matter, not even what they think matters. It doesn&#8217;t matter. We can simply be useful and we are. That is one of the most beautiful things of the socialist revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleida Guevara, daughter of the Che, talks about her experience with Cuba&#8217;s international medical brigades and the importance of solidarity among peoples: \u201cThat gives you extraordinary force as a people, truly, because you can say \u2018We are capable, we are capable of going to any place in the world where our help is needed\u2019. Neither their skin color, nor their religion matter, not even what they think matters. It doesn&#8217;t matter. We can simply be useful and we are. That is one of the most beautiful things of the socialist revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":7798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6539,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/aleida-guevara-daughter-of-che-internationalist-doctor-i-do-it-because-im-cuban\/","url_meta":{"origin":7796,"position":0},"title":"Aleida Guevara, Daughter of Che, Internationalist Doctor: \u2018I Do It Because I\u2019m Cuban","author":"Editorial Team","date":"July 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Rania Khalek sat down with Aleida Guevara, the daughter of Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara, in Havana, Cuba. 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