The Cuban musician Paquito D'Rivera surprised Aleida Guevara March, daughter of Che Guevara and a regular propagandist of the Cuban regime, as she was checking in for Business Class on Air Europa bound for Spain. He did not hesitate to capture the moment and share it on his social media with a phrase that went viral: "It's easy to be a communist like this, comrade."
In her Facebook post, D'Rivera described the scene with irony: "Comrade Aleida Guevara spreading socialist doctrine, flying first class all over Spain. 'That's how anyone can be a communist, comrade,' I told her, (but she didn't like it!)."
The photograph shows the Air Europa counters with the labels "Sky Priority" and "Business," along with signs for check-in and baggage claim.
In the foreground, three women are visible near the counters; one of them is holding documents, another is pushing a cart with several suitcases, and in front of the window stands Aleida Guevara.
In the comments of the post itself, the saxophonist added another jab: "I should have warned him that we would have to add an extra for the excess rope for her Patagonian bull neck, but she was already too far from me, showing her red official Castro passport to the Air Europa employee."
The incident is not an isolated event. Guevara has a long list of contradictions between his "egalitarian" rhetoric and his actual privileges, while Cuba is experiencing its worst economic and energy crisis in decades.
At the end of September, she traveled to Brussels to defend the regime at the European Parliament during the forum "Cuba Yes, Blockade No," organized by The Left group, just 12 days after the Eurochamber approved a resolution with 374 votes in favor demanding sanctions against the leader Miguel 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, Guevara broke down in tears over Fidel Castro during a public event. That same month, her statements re-emerged in which she 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 asked him directly: "Have you mentioned that your father was a murderer, that he created concentration camps for homosexuals and executed thousands of Cubans?"
D'Rivera, who left Cuba in 1980 while seeking asylum during a tour of Irakere in Spain, has spent decades denouncing the double standards of the Castro elite.
In a social media post in April, he summarized his stance with another powerful statement: "The same people who destroyed Cuba will not build it."
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