Hilda Gadea
Hilda Gadea Acosta (21 March 1921 – 11 February 1974) was a Peruvian economist, and author. She was the first wife of the revolutionary Che Guevara. Gadea Acosta was Secretary of the Economy of the Executive National Committee for the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA, American Popular Revolutionary Alliance).
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Hilda Gadea
- Birth Name
- Hilda Gadea Acosta
- Born
- 21 March 1921
- Birthplace
- Lima, Peru
- Died
- 11 February 1974
- Place of death
- Havana, Cuba
- Education
- National University of San Marcos
- Nationality
- Cuba and Peru.
- Occupation
- economist, political activist and writer.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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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 in February 1956 who died of cancer in 1995. 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. 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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• Birth Name — Hilda Gadea Acosta • Born — 21 March 1921 • Birthplace — Lima, Peru • Died — 11 February 1974 • Place of death — Havana, Cuba • Education — National University of San Marcos • Children — 1
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Identity and origins
Her recorded language was Spanish. She married Che Guevara.
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1925
Hilda Gadea born at Lima.
1974
Hilda Gadea died at Havana.
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- 1.eluniversal.com: Los lugares que visitó el Che en México Consultado el 27 de abril de 2021
- 2.cita web Hilda Gadea Acosta https://www.txalaparta.eus/es/libreria/autores/hilda-gadea-acosta Español 29 de noviembre de 2019
- 3.cita web MY LIFE WITH CHE https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780230613829 Inglés 29 de noviembre de 2019
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