Alberto Granado
Alberto Granado Jimnez was an ArgentineCuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America. Granados later founded the Santiago 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 Motorcycle Diaries, in which he was played by Rodrigo de la Serna. An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film.
Granado was born on August 8, 1922, in Hernando, Crdoba to Dionisio T. Granado and Adelina Jimnez Romero. In 1930, after Jos Flix Uriburu toppled the nationalist government of Hiplito Yrigoyen, Granados family relocated to Villa Constitucin, province of Santa F, due to his fathers position as a militant trade unionist. In 1931, Granado was sent to live with his grandparents in Crdoba and in 1940, he attended the University of Crdoba, where he studied chemistry, pharmacy and biochemistry.
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