Aleida Guevara March, daughter of Che Guevara, announced that she will have her own program starting next year on the pan-Arab channel Al Mayadeen, based in Beirut.
The TV network stated in a press release that the spokesperson for the Cuban regime will have a current affairs commentary segment called "Simply with Aleida Guevara."
Al Mayadeen is honored to offer the Arab, Latin American, and international public a space free, led by Aleida Guevara, to address people heart-to-heart, in a simple and sincere manner, recounting the past in a language of the present, for the sake of the future. Simply put, "Sencillamente, con Aleida Guevara" will be the name of the program that Aleida will present on Al Mayadeen's screen at the beginning of the new year 2024, as stated in the publication on X.
The Cuban embassy took note of the announcement and highlighted that it is a collaboration between Al Mayadeen and the Ernesto Che Guevara Study Center in Havana, led by the daughter of the Argentine guerrilla fighter.
The space will include current comments and personal anecdotes. The first season will consist of 54 episodes.
"What I like is being able to tell more about my dad's life to everyone, and if with this program many more people get to know Che, it will be something wonderful for me," said Aleida.
Al Mayadeen is a channel launched on June 11, 2012 in Lebanon, and has reporters in most Arab countries who broadcast for their news programs.
Recently, Aleida was criticized for her statements about the Israel-Palestine conflict, where she offered to be a mercenary in favor of that country: "I shoot pretty well," she stated during a conference at the University of Havana when discussing the issue.
As Mariela says, we have to go further. I am a doctor, I am already retired, but my neurons work. I am a pediatrician and can act, but besides that, I shoot quite well, I have good aim. And I am trained militarily, because I come from a military school, therefore, and so on, I am at your disposal," she said in a video that was shared by the journalist Rolando Nápoles.
In response to these threats and the statements - in the same event - made by Mariela Castro regarding Israel's war against the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Jewish Community of Cuba said that such statements showed a complete lack of knowledge and distortion of the moment and history, in addition to including "profound antisemitism."
"When you are a public figure, it is impossible to detach yourself from who you are and what you represent, to become a citizen of the world and expose your criteria, even more so when they show a total lack of knowledge and distortion of the moment and history," the statement indicated.
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