Hilda Gadea Acosta (21 March 1925 – 11 February 1974)[1][2] was a Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author.

Gadea married Guevara in Mexico in September 1955, after learning she was pregnant.

They had a daughter named Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara Gadea in February 1956 who died of cancer in 1995.

Gadea remained loyal to Guevara's political movement; she died in Havana in 1974.

[2] Gabriel San Roman, a writer for Z Magazine, began writing a play about Gadea.