La Habana. .- Alberto Granado, the friend and companion of the guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara in his youth on a motorcycle trip around South America, died in Havana at the age of 88, his family reported. Granado, born on August 8, 1922 in Cordoba (Argentina) and living in Cuba since 1961, died of natural causes, said his son Alberto Granado.
Cuban state television Granado defined as a "loyal friend of Cuba", and added that, according to his will, will be cremated on Saturday in Havana and his ashes will be scattered in Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela. Childhood friend of Che Guevara, was his companion on the journey of initiation in 1952 embarked on a motorcycle around South America, a journey that awakened the political consciousness of the Argentine guerrilla as he said.
On "La Poderosa" Granado's motorcycle, toured much of the Southern Cone until nine months later, split in Venezuela. Vicissitudes that was filmed in 2004 in the movie "Motorcycle Diaries", directed by Brazilian Walter Salles and starring Gael García Bernal in the role of Che and Argentine Rodrigo de la Serna as Alberto Granado.
After that trip Granado returned to Argentina to work as a biochemist, but after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Che was invited to go to Havana and a year later, he decided to settle in the island with his wife Delia and their children . In 2008, Alberto Granado traveled to Argentina to participate in the celebration of 80 anniversary of the birth of Che Guevara in the city of Rosario.
His last foreign trip was to Ecuador earlier this year, EFE said his son, who said his father was a "great revolutionary and a man who really loved life. 
Cuban state television Granado defined as a "loyal friend of Cuba", and added that, according to his will, will be cremated on Saturday in Havana and his ashes will be scattered in Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela. Childhood friend of Che Guevara, was his companion on the journey of initiation in 1952 embarked on a motorcycle around South America, a journey that awakened the political consciousness of the Argentine guerrilla as he said.
On "La Poderosa" Granado's motorcycle, toured much of the Southern Cone until nine months later, split in Venezuela. Vicissitudes that was filmed in 2004 in the movie "Motorcycle Diaries", directed by Brazilian Walter Salles and starring Gael García Bernal in the role of Che and Argentine Rodrigo de la Serna as Alberto Granado.
After that trip Granado returned to Argentina to work as a biochemist, but after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Che was invited to go to Havana and a year later, he decided to settle in the island with his wife Delia and their children . In 2008, Alberto Granado traveled to Argentina to participate in the celebration of 80 anniversary of the birth of Che Guevara in the city of Rosario.
His last foreign trip was to Ecuador earlier this year, EFE said his son, who said his father was a "great revolutionary and a man who really loved life.
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