The Cuban musician Paquito D'Rivera surprised Aleida Guevara March, the daughter of Che Guevara and a habitual propagandist for the Cuban regime, by sitting in Business Class on Air Europa bound for Spain. He didn't hesitate to capture the moment and share it on his social media with a phrase that went viral: "Anyone can be a communist, comrade."
In his Facebook post, D'Rivera described the scene with irony: "The 'comrade' Aleida Guevara spreading socialist doctrine, flying first class all over Spain. 'Anyone can be a communist like this, comrade,' I said, (but she didn't like it!)."
The photograph shows the Air Europa counters with the signs "Sky Priority" and "Business," along with check-in and baggage claim indicators.
In the foreground, three women can be seen near the counters, one of whom is holding documents and a red suitcase.
In the comments of the same post, the saxophonist added another jab: "I should have warned him that we would have to add an extra for the excess rope needed for her Patagonian bull neck, but she was already too far from me, displaying her red official Castro passport to the Air-Europa employee."
The episode is not an isolated anecdote. Aleida Guevara has a long list of contradictions between her egalitarian rhetoric and her actual privileges.
At the end of September, Guevara traveled to Brussels to defend the regime before the European Parliament at the forum "Cuba Yes, Blockade No," organized by the group The Left, just twelve days after the Eurochamber approved a resolution with 374 votes in favor demanding sanctions against Díaz-Canel and the release of political prisoners.
That resolution recorded 1,339 political prisoners in Cuba, including 155 women and 38 minors.
In August, while Cuba was experiencing one of its worst energy crises —with at least eight total power outages and generation deficits exceeding 2,400 MW— Aleida Guevara broke down in tears for Fidel Castro at a public event.
That same month, his statements resurfaced in which he described private entrepreneurship as “a small cancer within our society.”
In January of this year, Cuban activists confronted her in Seville after her participation in the IV International Meeting Europe for Cuba.
The activist Brayan Infante directly asked him: "Have you admitted that your father was a murderer, that he set up concentration camps for homosexuals and executed thousands of Cubans?"
D'Rivera, who left Cuba in 1980 by seeking asylum during an Irakere tour in Spain, has been denouncing the double standards of the Castro elite for decades.
In April of this year, he summed up his stance with another powerful phrase: "The same people who destroyed Cuba will not build it."
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