Alberto Granado
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Alberto Granado Jiménez was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, author, and scientist. A youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America, Granado l
2007 photo in Mérida, Venezuela
Alberto Granado (left) with Guevara (right) aboard their "Mambo-Tango" wooden raft on the Amazon River in June 1952. The raft was a gift from the lepers whom they had treated.
The Motorcycle Diaries is a posthumously published memoir of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. It traces his early travels as a 23-year-old medical student with his friend Alb
Alberto Granado
…2003, he was an on-set advisor to Walter Salles' film The Motorcycle Diaries, based upon Granado's Con el Che por Sudamerica and Guevara's own account The Motorcycle Diaries, published posthumously in 1967. Granado made a cameo appearance as himself in the epilogue of the film. The first English-language edition of Granado's…
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Guevara setting out on a 2,800 mile solo motorbike trip through the Argentine Northwest in 1950
Guevara (left) kick starts La Poderosa whilst holding the handlebars