Che Guevara's motorcycle companion dies aged 88
Alberto Granado, the travel companion of leftist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara on their famed 1950s motorcycle trip through South America, died Saturday in Cuba, official media reported.
Mr Granado was a doctor and Guevara a medical student when they set out on their eight-month odyssey.
They left Buenos Aires in December 1951 and traveled through much of South America, where they witnessed poverty of local communities, lack of access to medical care, and disenfranchisement of native people.
The trip was immortalized in Brazilian director Walter Salles's 1994 film "The Motorcycle Diaries," which drew from books about the voyage by both participants, and won an Oscar for best original song....
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Mr Granado was a doctor and Guevara a medical student when they set out on their eight-month odyssey.
They left Buenos Aires in December 1951 and traveled through much of South America, where they witnessed poverty of local communities, lack of access to medical care, and disenfranchisement of native people.
The trip was immortalized in Brazilian director Walter Salles's 1994 film "The Motorcycle Diaries," which drew from books about the voyage by both participants, and won an Oscar for best original song....