Hilda Gadea

Biography

Hilda Gadea Acosta (21 March 1925 – 11 February 1974) was a Peruvian economist, and author. She was the first wife of communist revolutionary Che Guevara.

Gadea Acosta was Secretary of the Economy of the Executive National Committee for Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA, American Popular Revolutionary Alliance). Her activities in Peru led to her exile in 1948. She met Guevara in Guatemala in December 1953. Gadea and Guevara moved to Mexico due to political pressure. She introduced Guevara to several Cuban rebels.

They wed in Mexico in September 1955, after learning she was pregnant. They had a daughter named Hilda Beatriz 'Hildita' Guevara Gadea in February 1956, who died of c...