Aleida March

Aleida March de la Torre (* March 1936 in Manicaragua, Las Villas Province, Cuba) is a Cuban revolutionary and was the second wife of Argentine- Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara ( 1928-1967 ). She runs the " Centro de Estudios Che Guevara " in Havana.

Life

March was the youngest child of an impoverished landowner family. She grew up on a 20 -acre finca in the countryside of Santa Clara. Later she studied pedagogy at the University of Santa Clara.

In 1956, she joined the movement of the July 26 ( M-26 -7), which fought under the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro against the authoritarian regime of Fulgencio Batista. In 1957 she was a courier between the city and the area of the now under the name " Cuban Rebel Army " operating guerrillas. March and Che Guevara met during the fighting in October 1958 know the central Cuban Escambray Mountains. Guevara was since July 21, 1957 Chief of the front south and center of Las Villas. In the morning hours of January 1, 1959 Dikatator Batista fled the country. Che Guevara went as commander and chief prosecutor against followers of the Batista regime in the fortress of La Cabaña in Havana, and with him Aleida March.

In La Cabaña March and Che Guevara also married on June 2, 1959 in a simple civil ceremony, after Guevara from his first wife, Hilda Gadea the Peruvian economist ( 1925-1974 ) had divorced. As guests were, inter alia, the Commander Dante's Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Celia Sanchez present. While Che Guevara various high offices of state took over (head of the Central Bank of Cuba, November 1959 to 1961, Minister of Industry from 1962 to 1965 ) was the couple March Guevara four children:

  • Aleida ( born November 17 1960; Cuban pediatrician and politician )
  • Camilo ( born May 20, 1962 Cuban politician )
  • Celia ( born June 14, 1963; Cuban- Argentine marine biologist ) and
  • Ernesto ( born February 24, 1965, Cuban lawyer).

Che Guevara's first wife Hilda lived with their daughter Hilda " Hildita " Beatriz Guevara Gadea (* February 15, 1956 in Mexico City, † August 21, 1995 in Havana ) in 1959 in Havana. On contact with his ex-wife to have largely dispensed with Che Guevara Aleida March sake. His daughter Hildita but he took regularly to his new family.

After Che Guevara went to the Congo in April 1965, in order there to advance the revolution, and then in 1966 moved on to Bolivia, where he was assassinated on 9 October 1967 by the army, March raised the children by herself.

Later, March President of the " Centro de Estudios Che Guevara " in Havana. She holds the rights to the works of Che Guevara.

Publications

  • 2008: Evocación. Mi vida al lado del Che (English " Remembering Che. My Life with Che Guevara ." 2012).
Argentina Santa Clara, Cuba 26th of July Movement Celia Sánchez Aleida Guevara Communist Party of Cuba Integrated Authority File
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