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Ches motorcycle companion dies

thx1138thx1138
edited March 2011 in Chit chat
Alberto Granado ? Che Guevara?s motorcycling companion and childhood
friend ? has died in Havana, aged 88.

In 1951, the pair spent eight months riding the length of South America
on a Norton 500, a journey credited with inspiring many of Guevara?s
revolutionary beliefs.

The 5000 mile trip ? made famous by the book and then the 2004 film ?The
Motorcycle Diaries? ? happened just eight years before Guevara helped
Fidel Castro lead the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

Shortly afterwards, Guevara invited Granado to live in Havana. The
Cordoba-born former student of medicine then taught biochemistry at
Havana University.

Che, as a motorcycling activist, is perhaps marginally more famous than
our own Ian Mutch, but it's a close run thing..

source - Motorcycle Action Group e-mail
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  • ADJBADJB
    edited March 2011
    It was also on loads of other sites but the only other thing of interest is that according to his wished he is being cremated and his ashes being scattered in Cuba, Venezuela and another country I can't remember.
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