Hilda Gadea Acosta (21 March 1925 – 11 February 1974) was a Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author.
She was the first wife of Che Guevara.
Gadea Acosta was Secretary of the Economy of the Executive National Committee for Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA, American Popular Revolutionary Alliance).
1948
Her activities in Peru led to her exile in 1948.
1953
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.
1955
Gadea married Guevara in Mexico in September 1955, after learning she was pregnant.
1956
They had a daughter named Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara Gadea in February 1956 who died of cancer in 1995.
Following the Cuban Revolution, 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, Aleida March, and requested a divorce.
1959
The marriage ended in a divorce in May 1959.
1974
Gadea remained loyal to Guevara's political movement; she died in Havana in 1974.
She wrote the memoir My Life With Che.
Gabriel San Roman, a writer for Z Magazine, began writing a play about Gadea.
