The son of Argentinian-born guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara died Monday in Caracas at the age of 60.
Camilo Guevara March, son of Argentinian-born guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara, died Monday in Caracas at the age of 60 of a heart attack, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced on Tuesday. “With deep sadness, we say goodbye to Camilo, son of Che and promoter of his ideas,” the president said on his Twitter account.
Con profundo dolor decimos adiós a Camilo, hijo del Che y promoter de sus ideas, como directivo del Centro Che, qu’esta parte del extraordinario legado de su padre. Abrazos a su madre, Aleida, a su viuda e hijas y a toda la familia Guevara March. pic.twitter.com/n7PaAVbmC2
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) August 30, 2022
According to the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, Camilo Guevara March was visiting Caracas when he died on Monday of “a pulmonary embolism which caused a heart attack”. Born in 1962, he was the eldest of four children of the Cuban-Argentine guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara killed by the Bolivian army in 1967, and his Cuban wife Aleida March, also an armed fighter. Three other children were born from this union: Aleida, Celia and Ernesto.
The “Che” had another daughter (Hilda who died in 1995), born of a previous marriage with the Peruvian Hilda Gadea. A graduate in labor law, Camilo Guevara March was director of the Che Guevara Studies Center in Havana, an institution dedicated to the perpetuation of his father’s work and thought.