One of the sons of guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara died this Monday (29), in Caracas. Lawyer Camilo Guevara March was 60 years old and suffered a heart attack. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed the death on social media.
According to the Prensa Latina news agency, Guevara March was visiting the Venezuelan capital and died “as a result of a pulmonary thromboembolism that led to a heart attack.”
Camilo was one of four children of Che with Cuban Aleida March — the others are Aleida, Celia and Ernesto. Like others of his brothers, he acted as “itinerant ambassador” for the memory of his father, leader of the group that established the communist regime in Cuba in 1959.
Che also had another daughter from a previous marriage, Hilda Guevara, who died in 1995.
Camilo visited Brazil in 1997, on the occasion of the “Guevara year”, as the 30th anniversary of the guerrilla’s death was called. At the time, the lawyer fled the harassment of journalists, arguing that the mere famous surname did not make him a target of interest.
He was also critical of the commodification of his father figure, whose face was immortalized in flags, t-shirts, mugs, and endless merchandising items. In 2010, during a screening of a documentary about Che at an international film festival in Montreal, he claimed that the “disproportionate and disproportionate commercialization” of the revolutionary’s image contributed to the disappearance of his history and ideology.
