Che Guevara's Motorcycle Buddy -- RIP

Alberto Granado, who traveled through South America on a motorcycle with Che Guevara, has passed away. The UK newspaper Daily Mail posted an interesting obit on Granado, an Argentinian who permanently moved to Cuba in the early 1960s.

The Guevara-Granado buddy story gained popular currency in the non-Communist world as the 20th Century ended and the 21st Century began. Their picaresque tale was the subject of a best selling book and a film, The Motorcycle Diaries, both of which enjoyed some critical and popular success. Ironically, Che's revolutionary struggle, so threatening to United States interests and Latin American governments in the 1960s, had become the stuff of story telling by the time the book was published and the movie made and distributed.

The photograph shows, from left to right, Guevara and Granado.