Che Guevara’s daughter visits bomb memorial in Hiroshima
Aleida Guevara, the oldest daughter of Marxist revolutionary Che
Guevara, offered flowers Thursday at a monument for atomic bomb
victims in Hiroshima during her first visit there.  Later in the
day, Aleida, 47, visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum,
which her late father visited in the late 1950s.  In the
afternoon, Aleida, a pediatrician, met with Hiroshima Mayor
Tadatoshi Akiba and atomic bomb survivors, and delivered a
speech on her memories of her father and medical services in
Cuba.  During his visit to Hiroshima in 1959, Che Guevara
witnessed the tragedy of Hiroshima as the world’s first city
subjected to nuclear warfare. In a postcard he sent to Cuba at
that time, he wrote, “In order to fight better for peace, one
must look at Hiroshima.”  Aleida has said the postcard, which
she read later, became her motivation to visit Hiroshima.
Aleida will stay in Japan through May 28, making speeches in
Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Naha, Okinawa.  The ato