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This is a vital book for anyone wishing to understand more about the late Argentine revolutionary. Vivid, intimate and uncensored, My Life with Che picks up Guevaras story where The Motorcycle Diaries left off, taking us, via his first marriage to Hilda Gadea, through his extraordinary transformation from bohemian adventurer to Marxist Revolutionary. A refreshing and engrossing read.

Jon Lee Anderson, bestselling author of
New York Times Notable Book,
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

Che Guevara is our Jesus Christ: an idealist, a martyr, a redeemer around whom a religion has sprung, first spontaneously, then officially. Hilda Gadeas memoir is the gospel according to Mary Magdalenean impassionate, first-hand account of the emblematic leader. We come across a Che that is, at once, small and larger-than-life. So we bow in reverence!

Ilan Stavans, best-selling author of
The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People and
Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language

Gadeas life story is not as well known as her husbands, but in many ways it was even more extraordinary than that of the famous revolutionary. A political refugee from Peru, she was exiled not once but twicefirst to Guatemala and later to Mexico. Frequently harassed and jailed by the police for her political beliefs, Gadeas stoic resolve in the face of great odds was remarkable. My Life With Che is a revealing, compelling insider look at the life of Che Guevara, at the corrupt and compliant right wing authorities who did Washingtons bidding in South America, and at a daring group of Latin American revolutionaries who dedicated their lives to the furtherance of a higher cause.

Nikolas Kozloff, author of
Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left and
Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S.

My Life with Che offers an intimate look at one of the most influential figures of the Cuban Revolution. The story of Ches life has become inseparable from the myth, and this book sheds new light on the man from the unique perspective of his first wife Hilda Gadea.

Alfredo Jos Estrada, author of
Havana: Autobiography of a City

Gadeas insights into the thinking and behavior of the young Che, and the Castro brothers during their exile in Mexico in the mid-1950s, are of great historical value. Che was then perfecting his Marxist beliefs but Raul Castro was already a great admirer of the Soviet Union. Gadea reveals too that Fidel espoused a radical internationalist agenda that he concealed from the Cuban people until after his victory. Essential reading for anyone interested in the Cuban revolution.

Brian Latell, author of
After Fidel: Raul Castro and the Future of Cubas Revolution and
Senior Research Associate in Cuban Studies at the University of
Miami

A candid, serious memoir by the iconic revolutionarys first wife [who] met Ernesto Guevara in Guatemala on December 20, 1953. A kinship developed between the like-minded two, as they shared Marxist tomes and ideas on how to resist the imperialist oligarchies controlling most of Latin America. Gadea and Guevara married and had a daughter, Hildita, but the revolution ultimately separated them. An intelligent, tender look at Guevaras human side.

Kirkus Reviews

MY LIFE WITH CHE

MY LIFE WITH CHE

The Making of a Revolutionary

HILDA GADEA

Frontline Books, London

My Life With Che

This edition published in 2008 by Frontline Books, an imprint of Pen and Sword
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Copyright Hilda Gadea, 1972

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Foreword Ricardo Gadea, 2008

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CONTENTS

RICARDO GADEA

HILDA GADEA

We only ask of the narrator that he be strictly truthful, that he never say anything inexact in order to enhance his personal position or to imply his presence at a certain place. We ask that, each one, on writing his notes in the best form of which he is capable according to his education and disposition, then very carefully edit these and eliminate any words which do not refer to a strictly true fact, or of whose veracity the author is not fully confident. It is with that spirit that we begin our recollections.

Ernesto Che Guevara, Prologue to
Passages of the Revolutionary War

To Mr. Ralph Schoenman, Director of Studies in the Third World, who encouraged me to write this book; to Myrna Torres, who verified dates and places; and to Juan Aguilar Derpich, for copying my drafts and making helpful comments.

March 1921	Hilda Gadea Acosta is born in Lima, Peru
1946	Gadea graduates with an economics degree
1948	Manuel A. Odria takes power and Hilda is forced into exile in Guatemala
December 1953	Gadea meets Ernesto Guevara
January 1954	Gadea introduces Guevara to the Cubans of the 26th of July Movement
March 1954	Guevara proposes for the first time
October 1954	Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz is overthrown by coup detat; Gadea joins Guevara in Mexico
January 1955	Gadea accepts Guevaras marriage proposal
September 1955	Hilda Gadea marries Ernesto Guevara
February 1956	Gadea gives birth to Hilda Beatrz Hildita Guevara in Mexico City
November 1956	Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and the rest of the Cuban revolutionaries leave to invade Cuba on the Granma, arriving December 2
January 1959	Gadea and Hildita join Guevara in Cuba
May 1959	Gadea and Guevara divorce
October 1967	Ernesto Che Guevara is executed in Bolivia
February 1974	Hilda Gadea dies in Havana, Cuba
August 1995	Hildita Guevara dies in Havana, Cuba

HILDA BENITA GADEA ACOSTA, la China, as we called her, was born in an old house in downtown Lima on March 21, 1921, the eldest of six siblings. All her life she was known as an idealist, a woman with a strong temperamentdynamic, enthusiastic, extremely intelligent and with ideas that were far ahead of her time.

Hilda studied in Lima, finished high school in 1938, and immediately enrolled in a one-year program to become a technical accountant. At the same time, with great dedication, she studied French, English, and German. Some years later, these studies would allow her to read the classics in their original languages with Ernesto.

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