One of the sons of the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, Camilo Guevara March, died at the age of 60, said Cuba President Miguel Diasel Bermudes on Twitter.
“With a deep sorrow, we say goodbye to Camilo, the son of Che and the conductor of his ideas, the director of the Center for Che, keeping a part of the outstanding heritage of his father,” wrote Dias -Kanga, expressing his mother’s condolences – the second wife of the revolutionary Aleide March, the widow and Children.
Camilo Gevar March was born in 1962. In total, Alaida March and Che Guevara had four children, the revolutionary also had a daughter from his first marriage with Hilda Gadea.
Camilo Guevar was named in honor of the friend of the revolutionary Camilo Senfuegos, who also participated in the Cuban Revolution and at the age of 27 died in a plane crash under unclear circumstances. La Razon notes. Camilo Guevara was the director of the Center for the Study of the Heritage of Che Guevara, opened in the 1980s and engaged in the personal archives of the revolutionary.
Che Guevara was a participant in the partisan war against the government forces in Cuba and was the first to whom Fidel Castro awarded the title of commandante. In 1958, a column of partisans under the command of Che Guevara captured Santa Clara, which opened their way to Havana. January 1, 1959 Castro announced the victory of the revolution. Che Guevara received Cuban citizenship and took part in the activities of the revolutionary government. In 1967, he was shot in Bolivia, where with a group of partisans he tried to organize a revolutionary movement.