"Fidel has told me many beautiful stories about my father"

“It’s not so easy, we do not want to control the image or make money from it, but it is hard when it’s exploited,” Dr Guevara smiles. “Sometimes people know what he stands for, sometimes not. Mostly I think it is used well, as a symbol for resistance, against repression.”…

Critics of Che claim the photogenic young man in battle fatigues who wrote poetry overshadows the brutality of his revolution. Guevara showed no qualms about killing. “It was a revolution,” says his daughter. “Of course, I would rather there was no bloodshed but that is the nature of revolution. In a true revolution you have to get what you want by force. An enemy who doesn’t want to give you what you want? Maybe you have to take it. My father knew the risk he took with his own life.