page_title: Aleida Guevara
section_title: Current work and personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Aleida Guevara / Current work and personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Aleida Guevara speaking on Subversive Festival 2013 in Zagreb.
context_page_description: Aleida Guevara March is the eldest daughter of four children born to Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March.
  She is a doctor of medicine, based at the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana. She has also worked as a physician in Angola, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. She is interviewed about the philosophy behind universal health care in Michael Moore's film Sicko.
  Guevara has been an advocate for human rights and debt relief for developing nations. She is the author of the book Chávez, Venezuela and the New Latin America.
context_section_description: As of 2009, Guevara helps run two homes for disabled children in Cuba and two more for refugee children with domestic problems. As a pediatrician specializing in childhood allergies, she has also been involved in medical support for a community in the flooded area around Río Cauto in eastern Cuba, while she has announced plans to work on the Island of Youth, which was devastated by several 2008 hurricanes.
  She also participates as public intellectual and activist in conferences, debates and festivals, such as the Subversive Festival from 4 May to 8 May 2013, in Zagreb, Croatia. There she was guest speaker next to other notable public thinkers like Slavoj Žižek and Tariq Ali.
  She has two daughters, Estefania (aka 'guapísima') and Celia.
caption: Aleida Guevara on Subversive Festival
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