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January 21, 2015
Canek Sánchez Guevara, Cuban author and dissident (born 1974)
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.
January 21
January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 344 days remain until the end of the year.