About Canek Sánchez Guevara
Canek Sánchez Guevara (1974–2015) was a Cuban author, photographer, musician and dissident. The grandson of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara, he grew up in the upper crust of post-revolutionary Cuban society, but soon became disillusioned with the government of Fidel Castro. After his mother's death, he went into exile in Mexico, where he worked as a writer for Proceso, penning criticisms of the Cuban government from a left-wing anarchist perspective. He died in 2015, following complications with cardiac surgery. == Biography == Canek Sánchez Guevara was born in the Cuban capital of Havana on 22 May 1974. He was the son of Mexican left-wing activist Alberto Sánchez Hernández and Hildita Guevara Gadea, the eldest daughter of the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara. He was named after the Kan Ekʼ (Black Serpent), a title for an ancient line of Maya monarchs. Sánchez Guevara was raised in a mansion in the upscale district of Miramar, where his mother worked at a government propaganda centre. He was taken abroad to study in Italy, Spain and Mexico, before returning to Cuba in 1986. During his teenage years, he came to admire his late grandfather, although he also struggled with the expectation to live up to Che's legacy, as Cubans told him "how to behave, what to do and what to say".
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