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Camilo Guevara March, son of the revolutionary leader of Argentine origin Ernesto “Che” Guevara, died this Tuesday in Venezuela at the age of 60 due to a heart attack, according to the Cuban government and various international media.
“With deep sorrow we say goodbye to Camilo, Che’s son and promoter of his ideas, as director of the Che Center, which preserves part of his father’s extraordinary legacy. Hugs to his mother, Aleida, his widow and daughters and the whole family Guevara March,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote on Twitter following hearing the news.
Born in 1962 and a lawyer by profession, he was a director of the Che Center, an institution located in Havana, which keeps the personal files of the leader of the Cuban Revolution and is dedicated to promoting his life, work and thought.
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Che Guevara had five children, two boys and three girls, from two different marriages. He was first married to Hilda Gadea, with whom he had a daughter (Hilda), and later with Aleida March, with whom he had two daughters (Aleida and Celia) and two sons (Camilo and Ernesto).
Ernesto Che Guevara was one of the most influential political leaders of his time, becoming the emblem of the Latin American revolutionary.
Along with Fidel Castro, whose movement he joined in 1956, he was one of the main architects of the triumph of the Cuban revolution (1959). He later held positions of great relevance in the new regime, but with the purpose of spreading the revolution to other Latin American countries, in 1966 he resumed his guerrilla activity in Bolivia, where he would be captured and executed a year later.
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