Alberto Granado

Alberto Granado (2007)

Alberto Granado (born August 8, 1922 in Hernando , Cordoba Province , Argentina , † March 5, 2011 in Havana , Cuba ) was an Argentine biochemist who became famous as Che Guevara's travel companion on his journey through South America 1951-1952.

Career

Granado studied biochemistry at the University of Cordoba . In Córdoba in 1945 he met Che Guevara, with whom he developed a close friendship. After traveling to South America together, it was eight years before the two of them met again. Granado was invited by Che Guevara to work in Cuba. First he was professor of biochemistry at the University of Havana , later he taught at the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba .

His book With Che through South America ( Con el Che por Sudamérica ) served as the basis for the film The Journey of Young Che and has been translated into several languages. In the film, Rodrigo de la Serna portrays him as a young man and Granado himself made a cameo as himself in later years. You can see him in the last scene of the film, in which Che's body is transported to Cuba.

Granado, who has lived in Cuba since 1961, has one son. Alberto Granado died on March 5, 2011 of old age. Following his last will, he was cremated in Havana on March 6, 2011. Its ashes are said to be scattered in Cuba, Venezuela and Argentina.

publication

• With Che through South America. Travel report. Translated from the Spanish by Christa Grewe. Preface by Horst-Eckart Gross. Cologne: Weltkreis 1988, ISBN 3-88142-417-2

Web links

• Alberto Granado in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Alberto Granado in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Alberto Granado about the film The Motorcycle Diaries (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Fallció Alberto Granado, compañero de viaje de Che Guevara - Un adiós" (Spanish)
2. ↑ tagesschau.de (March 6, 2011) "Died at the age of 88: Guevara companion Alberto Granado dead" ( Memento from March 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )