London:
Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara's motorcycle companion Alberto Granado has died in Cuba at the age of 88, media reports said. Granado died of natural causes in Havana; his body is to be cremated, and according to his wishes, the ashes are to be spread in Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela, the BBC quoted the Cuban state television as saying.
The pair's eight-month journey around Latin America in 1951 exposed the two medical students to deep poverty and social injustice and awoke Guevara's revolutionary convictions. 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.
Granado was born in Cordoba, Argentina, on 8 August 1922 and met Guevara as a child. Their journey around Latin America on the motorcycle they called La Poderosa (The Powerful) was immortalised in the 2004 film 'The Motorcycle Diaries', as it was based on diaries both men kept. Guevara was killed in Bolivia in 1967 as he tried to lead a revolution there.
The pair's eight-month journey around Latin America in 1951 exposed the two medical students to deep poverty and social injustice and awoke Guevara's revolutionary convictions. 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.
Granado was born in Cordoba, Argentina, on 8 August 1922 and met Guevara as a child. Their journey around Latin America on the motorcycle they called La Poderosa (The Powerful) was immortalised in the 2004 film 'The Motorcycle Diaries', as it was based on diaries both men kept. Guevara was killed in Bolivia in 1967 as he tried to lead a revolution there.
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