Hilda Gadea

Economist, Author

1921 – 1974

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Who was Hilda Gadea?

Hilda Gadea Acosta was a Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author. She was Che Guevara's first wife.

Gadea Acosta was the first female Secretary of the Economy of the Executive National Committee for Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana. Her activities in Peru led to her exile in 1948. She first met Guevara in Guatemala in December 1953. Gadea and Guevara moved to Mexico due to pressure from their politics. She introduced Guevara to several Cuban rebels.

Gadea married Guevara in Mexico in September 1955, after learning she was pregnant. The marriage ended in a divorce in May 1959. They had a daughter named Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara Gadea.

Following the Cuban revolution, in which Guevara fought, Gadea came to Cuba, to be confronted with the announcement by Guevara that he had fallen in love with another woman, Aleida March, and requested a divorce. Gadea remained loyal to Guevara's political movement; she died in Havana in 1974. She wrote the memoir My Life With Che. Gabriel San Roman, a writer for Z Magazine, began writing a play about Gadea.

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Born
Mar 1, 1921
Lima
Also known as
  • Hilda Gadea Acosta
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Nationality
  • Peru
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Died
Feb 1, 1974
Havana

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on July 23, 2013

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