Aleida Guevara, daughter of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, recently made an emotional visit to Hiroshima to follow in the footsteps of her father and address her country's humanitarian efforts to provide medical aid to other nations in need.
Guevara, 47, is the oldest daughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March. When Che Guevara was gunned down in 1967 in the Bolivian jungle where he led his guerrilla movement, his daughter was only 6 years old.
Guevara was in Japan at the invitation of Japanese citizens' groups to mark the 80th anniversary of Che Guevara's birth, delivering a string of speeches in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Okinawa and Hiroshima from May 14 until Wednesday.
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