Che Guevara’s motorcycle companion dead
March 6th, 2011 - 11:40 am ICT by IANSLondon, March 6 (IANS) Alberto Granado, the motorcycle companion of Ernesto Che Guevara, has died in Cuba at the age of 88, BBC reported.
Cuban state media reported that Granado died of natural causes in Havana.
The pair’s eight-month journey across Latin America on a motorcycle was immortalised in the 2004 movie “The Motorcycle Diaries”.
The journey that began in 1951 exposed the two medical students to deep poverty and social injustice and awakened Guevara’s revolutionary ideals.
The movie was based on diaries both men kept.
After helping Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, Guevara invited Granado to Cuba.
After arriving in Cuba in 1961, Granado taught biochemistry at Havana University.
His body would be cremated and according to his wishes, the ashes would be spread across Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela.
Granado was born in Cordoba, Argentina, Aug 8, 1922. He met Guevara as a child.
Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia in 1967, while trying to lead a revolution there.
In the movie, Granado was played by Argentine actor Rodrigo De la Serna, while Gael Garcia Bernal played Che.
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