"¡Viva La Revolución!"

I believe in the right of every nation to its self determination.

I believe in the right of the Basque people to its independence as much as I wish it for Catalunya, Tibet, Corsica, Galiza, Brittany, Tibet, Palestine.

That is why I'm glad to lear that there is people that still believes:

'Viva la revolucion!' says Che Guevara's daughter

HAVANA, (AFP) - The daughter of Cuba's revolutionary hero Che Guevara told AFP that socialism is still possible in Latin America, and that leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez inspires hope.

Aleida Guevara March, daughter of Argentine-born Ernesto "Che" Guevara, said in an interview that 38 years after the death of her father, it is still possible to remove the right-wing from the region, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru.

"All that is needed is a good scalpel," said Guevara March, 44. Like her father, she studied medicine.

Her father joined the Cuban revolution, led by Cuba's current president, Fidel Castro, helping to topple the Havana government in 1959. Guevara died trying to export socialist revolution to Bolivia.

His daughter said the United States "has unleashed so much propaganda against Cuba and against socialism that many people are afraid of it."

Chavez, then, means "hope, because Latin America is very afraid of socialism," she said.

"Hugo Chavez today could be an alternative, a possibility, but if one looks at the evolution of his Bolivarian Revolution, one sees that circumstances have forced him to be more and more radical because of US pressure," she said.

Chavez' political program is based on the writings of South America's "Liberator" from Spain, Simon Bolivar, who urged Latin American unity.

One thing though, I do not agree that Chavez is a hope, as long as he continues to exchange Basque refugees for trade deals with Spain he is no more than all the other Latin American leaders that sold their souls to Aznar and company.

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