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''; retrieved 23 February 2009. was a Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author. She was the first wife of

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. Gadea Acosta was Secretary of the Economy of the Executive National Committee for Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA,

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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.Snow, Anita
''My Life With Che''
by Hilda Gadea" (''Associated Press''), '' WJXX-TV''. 16 August 2008; retrieved 23 February 2009. Following the

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, 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,

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, and requested a divorce. Gadea remained loyal to Guevara's political movement; she died in

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in 1974. She wrote the memoir ''My Life With Che''. Gabriel San Roman, a writer for ''

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'', began writing a play about Gadea.San Román, Gabriel.
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