CALCUTTA, Nov 5: ``Man has no alternative to Communism,'' said the legendary Che Guevara's daughter Aleidita Guevara. Optimistic despite the setbacks the Communists suffered in the collapse of Soviet Union, Aleidita said the ``capitalist world cannot last for ever as the system is based on inequality and socio-economic injustice.''

Che's daughter, who is also an active member of the Communist Party of Cuba, addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, said, ``it's only Communism which could set a vast section of the humanity, slogging under the socio-economic bondage, free.''

Aleidita, who is a practicing doctor in Cuba, summing it up, told media persons that she saw a bright future for Communism the world over and the fight against injustice would go on.

Launching an attack against Western media, which she felt always tried to pit Che against Fidel Castro, she said there was never any difference between her father and Castro.

In fact, the Western media tried its best to create confusion among the Cubans by launching a campaign to suggest actually the difference between his father and Castro, forced Che to quit Cuba and set out for an Odyssey whence he could not come back.

Saying that they told people the fake story, Aleidita said: ``My father gave up the citizenship of his country because he believed it was his duty to wage a continuous war, particularly in the Latin American countries, wherever humanity was tortured and muzzled by imperialist forces.''

She regretted that in their ``evil design to divide the people, the Western media took full advantage of the mysterious circumstances under which her father died.''

Che, considered one of the greatest enemy of the Anglo-American imperialist forces for his plan to set on a Latin American Communist revolution and his brilliance in unorthodox guerrilla warfare, was allegedly killed by CIA agents in a Bolivian village on October 9, 1967 after his arrest a day earlier.

Sharing little known facts about her father's assassination, Aleidita said there was a popular theory that Regis Debray, another important guerrilla leader, had had a hand in getting Che arrested, it was said that Debray who was arrested earlier may have informed the CIA agents about the whereabouts of Che. ``But we cannot prove it for the lack of witness and correct information,'' she added.

Earlier, Che's daughter was greeted by a huge crowd, belonging to various Left organisations, at Dumdum airport. Later, at a meeting, attended by the West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu and other bigwigs, she was given a warm welcome on behalf of the State Government.

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