Professional Relatives

Few things disgust me more than professional relatives, people who, in the absence of any achievements of their own, milk the fame of a relative for unearned respect.  Here is one such creature:

Aleida Guevara, Che Guevara’s daughter and the director of the Studies Center named after her father, has criticized the call from the authorities for Cubans to attend the Masses that will take place during Pope Francis’s visit to Cuba.

It is undeniable that the Catholic Church sucks, the Pope sucks, and greeting the Pope in Cuba is one big joke. This message, however, should be delivered by anybody but this woman who has turned the title of “Che Guevara’s daughter” into a source of profit, attention, and adulation.

I will never forget how this horrible, nasty creature praised the Cuban medical care system in Michael Moore’s movie. I was shocked by the shamelessness of this white woman who was coddled and spoiled rotten by the party while the overwhelmingly black population of the island was abused and pushed around by the so-called doctors in dirty, smelly barns called hospitals and was forced to sell their bodies to Western tourists in return for a life-saving asthma inhaler or a vial of insulin. (I saw these people and talked with them, so arguing with me about this makes no sense.)

I’m sure Che Guevara – who, with all his faults, was an earnest believer in the revolution – would have little cause to celebrate if he saw how fat his daughter grew, sucking out the blood of the Cuban people and making grand pronouncements in his name.

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That's not what the people of Cuba look like, both in terms of girth and in terms of color

It’s easy for Aleida Guevara to criticize the miserable, debased Cubans for whom God is the only hope in their sad, hopeless lives. Aleida’s god is the party that allows her to run a nifty little business of deriving profit from the memory of a father who, when he was alive, didn’t give a crap about her. Of course, she doesn’t need any other sort of divine intervention. The Cubans who don’t have famous dead relatives they could peddle, though, really do.

6 thoughts on “Professional Relatives

  1. IME, the prominent Cuban Americans who are commonly known to be Cuban often read as tan white people. I don’t know how true that is of the general Cuban American population, though.

    I knew someone (not Cuban) who had their one of her children in Cuba. For all she touted Cuba’s medical system, (“healthcare is free”) she still came to the US and chose to have her second daughter here and she has not been back to Cuba since.

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    1. The Cuban immigrants in the US are much, much whiter than the population of Cuba. This is not surprising since the rich white people all left at the time of the revolution. Today, it often seems like the only white people in the country are congregated in the party leadership.

      Of course, the black majority of Cuba in no way cancels out the existence of a horrible, soul-crushing racism that still positions the black people of Cuba as deeply inferior. :-(((((( The things I saw there, oh God. I’m not a very compassionate person but I will never get over the tragedy of the Cuban people.

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  2. Fuck this fat ugly cunt and her worthless father, she’s not even a real Cuban. I’m not sorry for the language because this vile thing deserves it, her and the rest of the bloodsucking parasites who ruined Cuba.

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    1. Hey, I feel your pain. Anybody who has chosen not to remain blind to what has been done to the people of Cuba will feel pain and rage. I’m forever changed by what I saw in Cuba and it’s not even my country.

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      1. Thanks, ma’am. My parents are Cuban refugees who came over as children and my grandparents loved to talk about how beautiful Cuba was before TSHF, it pisses me off so much when people say Castro is a great man and that Cuba is wonderful now. Fuck all of them.

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