[Marxism] Che's widow to unveil her memoir

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

URL: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=48470&sectionid=351020702

The widow of legendary Ernesto "Che" Guevara unveils her memoir about the six 
years she spent with the Argentine hero before he left for Africa.

Aleida March, 71, has dedicated the book titled "Evocation," to her children, 
her greatest source of inspiration and her late husband's comrade-in-arms, 
former Cuban president Fidel Castro to whom she owes everything she told AFP on 
Friday.

In the book, she narrates the story of six-years of life with her Argentinian 
husband ahead of his departure to spread revolution in Africa.

"I've never given an interview to reporters, nor will I ever do so. Everything 
I 
have to say is written down in this book," March said on presenting her memoir 
published by Casa de las Americas.

She noted that after finding it hard to think back to her half dozen years of 
marital life with Che Guevara from 1959-1965, the inspiration for the memoir 
came a few years ago from a friend, who offered her to write a film script 
about 
her life with Che.

Though March wasn't too enthusiastic about the idea, she thought that, above 
all, she owed it to her children, and started to put down her memories.

"I began writing about my life," said March, a mother of four who is director 
of 
Cuba's Center for Che Guevara Studies.

The early years of Guevara, as a medical student traveling with a friend across 
South America on a motorcycle in 1952-1953, were brought to the big screen in 
Walter Salles' 2004 "Motorcycle Diaries," starring Mexico's Gael Garcia Bernal.


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