Alberto Granado is dead, Ernesto Che Guevara friend in his famous motorcycle trip to South America. Granado, 88, died Saturday, March 5 in his sleep at his home in the Miramar district of Havana, his ashes will be scattered between Cuba, Venezuela and Argentina, had written it as' his last wish.
" After the trip along with that for South America in 50 years, Granado, who was born in Argentina in 1922, he was in Venezuela, where he married the Venezuelan Delia, by whom he had three children. The mortuary was set up in the Vedado neighborhood in Havana, where hundreds of people have given him a final farewell, one of these Aleida Guevara, Che's widow.
Next to the coffin of Granada, the wreaths of Fidel and Raul Castro. Astride the estates - they were started from Argentina aboard the Powerful, a Norton motorbike in 1939, with the idea of exploring the South American continent. It was 1952. Granado was then 30 years, Che, 23. One would then become the most celebrated revolutionary of the twentieth century, who died in Bolivia in 1967.
The other, Alberto Granado, then 30 years old, majoring in pharmacology, were transferred in the early 60s in Castro's Cuba, where he founded the Medical School of Santiago. But that trip would always be remembered, to the last. Until Saturday morning, when 88 years has died of natural causes in Havana.
Rodrigo de la Serna in the role of Granado and Gael Garcia in the Revolution of Cheun LIVED - adventure, immortalized by the movie The Motorcycle Diaries (directed by Walter Salles Rodrigo de la Serna in the role of Granado and Gael Garcia in one of Che ) and mentioned in the book by Granado A gypsy sedentary.
The autobiography of the boy who traveled with Che Guevara in motion and followed the revolution in Cuba, was the first experience of real social and political awareness for the young Argentine. Born in Cordoba on 8 August 1922, he became a friend of Ernesto Granado when he was a child.
Both students, Guevara of medicine, pharmacology Granado, on that trip knew the poverty in the continent, via Chile, Colombia, Peru, where they spent a period of strong and significant in a leper colony, and Venezuela, where at last they parted. For here Granado stopped to work in a clinic for leprosy patients.
Guevara continued his journey to Miami and then returned to Argentina to complete his studies. In 1956, Guevara joined the group of Fidel and Raul Castro, who sailed from Mexico to Cuba aboard the ship Granma. The revolution brought them to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959.
THE DOCTOR - A little later, in 1960, Guevara urged the island's old friend Granado, who decided to stay and live there with his family, teaching biochemistry at the University of Havana. In 1962 he founded with a group of colleagues in the Faculty of Medicine at Santiago, where he taught from 1970 to 1974.
Since he moved, Granado has always lived on the island keeping a low profile.
" After the trip along with that for South America in 50 years, Granado, who was born in Argentina in 1922, he was in Venezuela, where he married the Venezuelan Delia, by whom he had three children. The mortuary was set up in the Vedado neighborhood in Havana, where hundreds of people have given him a final farewell, one of these Aleida Guevara, Che's widow.
Next to the coffin of Granada, the wreaths of Fidel and Raul Castro. Astride the estates - they were started from Argentina aboard the Powerful, a Norton motorbike in 1939, with the idea of exploring the South American continent. It was 1952. Granado was then 30 years, Che, 23. One would then become the most celebrated revolutionary of the twentieth century, who died in Bolivia in 1967.
The other, Alberto Granado, then 30 years old, majoring in pharmacology, were transferred in the early 60s in Castro's Cuba, where he founded the Medical School of Santiago. But that trip would always be remembered, to the last. Until Saturday morning, when 88 years has died of natural causes in Havana.
Rodrigo de la Serna in the role of Granado and Gael Garcia in the Revolution of Cheun LIVED - adventure, immortalized by the movie The Motorcycle Diaries (directed by Walter Salles Rodrigo de la Serna in the role of Granado and Gael Garcia in one of Che ) and mentioned in the book by Granado A gypsy sedentary.
The autobiography of the boy who traveled with Che Guevara in motion and followed the revolution in Cuba, was the first experience of real social and political awareness for the young Argentine. Born in Cordoba on 8 August 1922, he became a friend of Ernesto Granado when he was a child.
Both students, Guevara of medicine, pharmacology Granado, on that trip knew the poverty in the continent, via Chile, Colombia, Peru, where they spent a period of strong and significant in a leper colony, and Venezuela, where at last they parted. For here Granado stopped to work in a clinic for leprosy patients.
Guevara continued his journey to Miami and then returned to Argentina to complete his studies. In 1956, Guevara joined the group of Fidel and Raul Castro, who sailed from Mexico to Cuba aboard the ship Granma. The revolution brought them to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959.
THE DOCTOR - A little later, in 1960, Guevara urged the island's old friend Granado, who decided to stay and live there with his family, teaching biochemistry at the University of Havana. In 1962 he founded with a group of colleagues in the Faculty of Medicine at Santiago, where he taught from 1970 to 1974.
Since he moved, Granado has always lived on the island keeping a low profile.
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