San Pablo, Peru
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San Pablo de Loreto is a village, and the location of a leprosarium in Peru. The village is located near Iquitos. The colony was constructed in 1925. In 1941, it became an agricultural colony in which
San Pablo de Loreto Square
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
San Pablo, Peru
…agricultural colony in which the patients had to work the fields. Maxime Hans Kuczyński helped found the leprosarium in 1936. In 1952, Che Guevara and Alberto Granado worked at the colony. The colony was home to around 600 people at the time. By 1957, the number of patients had increased to about 780. The colony was…
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.