Hilda Gadea & Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Che Guevara and Hilda Gedea
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Hilda Gadea and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara were married for 3 years. They dated for 1 year after getting together in Dec 1953 and married on 18th Aug 1955. 3 years later they divorced on 22nd May 1959.

They had a daughter named Hilda Beatriz age 67.

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Peruvian Writer Hilda Gadea was born Hilda Gadea Acosta on 21st March, 1921 in Lima, Perú and passed away on 1st Feb 1974 La Havana, Cuba aged 52. She is most remembered for Che Guevara's first wife.. Her zodiac sign is Aries.

Argentinean Activist Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was born Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna on 14th June, 1928 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina and passed away on 9th Oct 1967 La Higuera, Vallegrande, Bolivia. aged 39. He is most remembered for socialist revolutionary leader in Cuba and elsewhere across Latin America.. His zodiac sign is Gemini.

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Relationship Statistics

StatusDurationLength
DatingDec 1953 - 18th Aug 1955 1 year, 8 months
Married18th Aug 1955 - May 1959 3 years, 8 months
Total Dec 1953 - May 1959 5 years, 5 months


On May 15, 1954, a shipment of Škoda infantry and light artillery weapons was sent from Communist Czechoslovakia for the Arbenz Government and arrived in Puerto Barrios. As a result, the U.S. CIA sponsored an army which invaded the country and installed the right-wing dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas. Guevara was eager to fight on behalf of Arbenz and joined an armed militia organized by the Communist Youth for that purpose, but frustrated with the group's inaction, he soon returned to medical duties. Following the coup, he again volunteered to fight, but soon after, Arbenz took refuge in the Mexican Embassy and told his foreign supporters to leave the country. Guevara’s repeated calls to resist were noted by supporters of the coup, and he was marked for murder.] After Hilda Gadea was arrested, Guevara sought protection inside the Argentine consulate, where he remained until he received a safe-conduct pass some weeks later and made his way to Mexico. He married Gadea in Mexico in August 18th 1955.
Guevara's conviction that Marxism achieved through armed struggle and defended by an armed populace was the only way to rectify such conditions was thus strengthened. Gadea wrote later, "It was Guatemala which finally convinced him of the necessity for armed struggle and for taking the initiative against imperialism. By the time he left, he was sure of this.
Guevara arrived in Mexico City in early September 1954, and worked in the allergy section of the General Hospital. In addition he gave lectures on medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and worked as a news photographer for Latina News Agency. His first wife Hilda notes in her memoir My Life with Che, that for a while, Guevara considered going to work as a doctor in Africa and that he continued to be deeply troubled by the poverty around him.[ In one instance, Hilda describes Guevara's obsession with an elderly washerwoman whom he was treating, remarking that he saw her as "representative of the most forgotten and exploited class." Hilda later found a poem that Che had dedicated to the old woman, containing "a promise to fight for a better world, for a better life for all the poor and exploited."
Gadea gave birth to a daughter named Hilda Beatríz "Hildita" Guevara in February 1956.
On December 2nd 1956 he travelled to Cuba for the Revolution. When Hilda Gadea arrived in Cuba in late January 1959, Guevara told her that he was involved with another woman, and the two agreed on a divorce, which was finalized on May 22.

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Relationship Timeline

22nd May, 1959 - Divorce

2nd December, 1956 - Breakup

15th February, 1956 - Child

18th August, 1955 - Marriage

December, 1953 - Hookup

Couple Comparison

Name
Hilda Gadea
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Hilda Gadea
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Age (at start of relationship)
32
25
Zodiac
Aries
Gemini
Occupation
Writer
Activist
Nationality
Peruvian
Argentinean
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Children

NameGenderBornAge
Hilda BeatrizFemale15th February, 195668 years old

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