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Alberto Granado
Alberto Granado Jiménez was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, author, and scientist. A youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America, Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. He authored the memoir Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary, which served as a reference for the 2004 film The…
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science · Companion of Che Guevara during his 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America · scientist · writer · screenwriter · pharmacist · physician · cinematographer · film actor · university teacher · biochemist · also Alberto Granado, Alberto Granado Jiménez, Granado
Born 8 August 1922 · Died 5 March 2011 · Q316310
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s effort to dig beneath the mythical Che, whose defiant image appears on T-shirts and posters around the world, to reveal the flawed, flesh-and-blood Ernesto beneath.
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2026· 7 entries
“s effort to dig beneath the mythical Che, whose defiant image appears on T-shirts and posters around the world, to reveal the flawed, flesh-and-blood Ernesto beneath.”
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“Not through the eyes of a tourist, interested only in landscapes, comforts and fleeting pleasures, but with the eyes and spirit of one of the people.”
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“s departure from Cuba was prompted by arguments with President Castro or the Russians.”
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“The most important thing was to realise that we had a common sensibility for the things that were wrong and unjust.”
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“The story follows the friendship shared between the two friends from when Ernesto was 14 years old and Alberto was in his 20s, outlining all the shared dreams and days, their great adventure through South America and what happened after they went their separate ways following their travels [...] It also contains Granado's reflections on Che's death, the returning of his mortal remains to Cuba and all the difficult stages that the Cuban Revolution and people have lived.”
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“I needed to see the world, but first I wanted to see Latin America, my own long-suffering continent. Not through the eyes of a tourist, interested only in landscapes, comforts and fleeting pleasures, but with the eyes and spirit of one of the people.”
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2011· 2 entries
Time: Alberto Granado
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Died 2011-03-05.
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2004· 1 entry
“which was two young men - boys, really - who went looking for adventure and found the truth and tragedy of our homeland.”
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2003· 2 entries
Entitled Travelling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary
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“What I appreciated most was Che's honesty — and his ability to transform negative things into positive things. ... he was not compromising. It wasn't easy unless you shared his vision and believed in it.”
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1997· 1 entry
Joined the campaign for solidarity with Cuba and promotion of Guevara's ideas at home and abroad
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1978· 1 entry
Published his account of his and Guevara's 1951–1952 tour of South America, named Con el Che por Sudamerica, in Spanish, Italian, and French
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1965· 2 entries
“Because he was a man who fought and died for what he thought was fair, so for young people, he is a man who needs to be followed. And as time goes by and countries are governed by increasingly corrupt people ... Che's persona gets bigger and greater, and he becomes a man to imitate. He is not a God who needs to be praised or anything like that, just a man whose example we can follow, in always giving our best in everything we do.”
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To pursue revolutions abroad, he left several books with inscriptions for close friends
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1962· 1 entry
Founded the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Santiago with a group of colleagues, the second in Cuba
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1960· 1 entry
Granado visited Cuba for the first time on Guevara's invitation
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1959· 1 entry
Granado was invited to Havana by Guevara, who had risen to become second-in-command under Fidel Castro
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1955· 1 entry
Granado won a scholarship to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome; while in Europe he visited France, Spain, and Switzerland
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1946· 1 entry
Having graduated with an MSc in biochemistry, Granado became a medical assistant to the head of the University of Córdoba's Hygiene and Epidemiology department
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1943· 1 entry
Granado took part in the political protests against General Juan Perón and was jailed for one year
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1931· 1 entry
Granado was sent to live with his grandparents in Córdoba and in 1940, he attended the University of Córdoba, where he studied chemistry, pharmacy and biochemistry
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1930· 1 entry
After José Félix Uriburu toppled the progressive government of Hipólito Yrigoyen, Granado's family relocated to Villa Constitución, province of Santa Fé, due to his father's position as a militant trade unionist
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-08-08.
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