Camilo Guevara Marsh, son of the Marxist revolutionary “Che” Guevara, died this Tuesday. Camilo was 60 years old and died of a heart attack, as a result of a pulmonary thromboembolism.
The news of the death was provided by the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and the cause of death was reported by the Prensa Latina news agency, according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
Camilo Guevara Marsh, one of Che’s five children, was born in 1962 and was a lawyer by profession, according to the BBC, specializing in labor law. He was also, for several years, director of the Che Guevara Study Center, an institution in Havana that was founded to perpetuate the memory and life of one of the main actors of the Cuban Revolution.
When announcing the death of Che Guevara’s son, the current president of Cuba described it as follows: “It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Camilo, son of Che and promoter of his ideas as director of the Che Center, which preserves for the extraordinary the legacy of your dad. I send hugs to mom Aleida, his widow and his daughters and the entire Guevara Marsh family.”
With deep sorrow we decided to add Camilo, son of Che and promoter of his ideas, as director of the Che Center, which preserves part of the extraordinary legacy of his priest. A hug to your mother, Aleida, your widow and children to the entire Guevara March family. pic.twitter.com/n7PaAVbmC2
– Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) August 30, 2022
Admired by the radical left, particularly in Latin America, “Che”, originally an Argentine doctor, has become a cultural symbol for his role in the insurrection against the autocratic rule of Cuban Fulgencio Batista. Taking part in the history of the Cuban “guerrilla”, he would become President of the Central Bank of Cuba between 1959 and 1961 and, between 1961 and 1965, Minister of Industries of the Cuban Government headed by Fidel Castro.
Che Guevara: the man who despised humanity
A believer in the expansion and diffusion of the Cuban Revolution throughout Latin America and the African territories, a fervent fighter against what he considered the colonization, imperialization and exploitation of South America by the United States of America, “Che” died in 1967 , shot by the Bolivian Army.
In recent years, complaints have increased about the executions ordered by “Che” Guevara of political prisoners of the regime established after the Cuban Revolution.
“Che shot at the head of those who shot him. I really liked that little punch of mercy.”
Source: Observadora
