Thiruvananthapuram, July 29: Aleida Guevara, daughter of legendary Cuban Revolutionary Che-Guevara, on Monday called on Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at his official residence here. Aleida had earlier arrived in Delhi and then late on Sunday reached here.

In Kerala, her father is an idol among the Communist Party of India-Marxist cadres, especially its youth and students organisations. Later in the day she will be meeting a string of CPI-M state minister's and also visit the state party headquarters. Che Guevara Quotes: Remembering the Marxist Revolutionary Guerrilla Leader on His 91st Birth Anniversary.

She will be attending a couple of programmes here as the chief guest including one on August 1, in Kannur -- the bastion of the CPI-M. The next day she will be in Kochi.

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