1. Alberto Granado 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.
23 Facts About Alberto Granado
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An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film.
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In 1930, after Jose Felix Uriburu toppled the progressive government of Hipolito Yrigoyen, Alberto Granado's family relocated to Villa Constitucion, province of Santa Fe, due to his father's position as a militant trade unionist.
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In 1931, Alberto Granado was sent to live with his grandparents in Cordoba and in 1940, he attended the University of Cordoba, where he studied chemistry, pharmacy and biochemistry.
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In 1943, Alberto Granado took part in the political protests against General Juan Peron and was jailed for one year.
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Guevara soon joined a rugby team that Alberto Granado had organized once released.
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In 1946, having graduated with an MSc in biochemistry, Alberto Granado became a medical assistant to the head of the University of Cordoba's Hygiene and Epidemiology department.
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Alberto Granado had already developed an interest in Hansen's bacillus, and so the following year took a post as director of pharmacology in a leprosarium.
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Alberto Granado then won a scholarship to Instituto Malbran, in Buenos Aires.
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At the age of 29 and with full-time work as a biochemist, Alberto Granado sought one final thrill before settling into a life of middle-class comfort.
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Alberto Granado's journey ended in Caracas, Venezuela, where he remained to work at the Cabo Blanco leprosarium in Maiquetia.
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Alberto Granado married Delia Maria Duque Duque upon his return.
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Alberto Granado would serve as a senior professor there until 1974.
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Alberto Granado was thus in part responsible for Cuba's high number of highly trained doctors, which has been described as "one of the undeniable achievements of Castro's government".
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Between 1975 and 1986, Alberto Granado obtained his doctorate in biological sciences and attended the World Congress on Genetics in Moscow.
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Alberto Granado attended the Congress on Polymorphism in Leningrad and became centrally involved in the development of Holstein Tropical cattle breeds.
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Alberto Granado made a cameo appearance as himself in the epilogue of the film.
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The first English-language edition of Alberto Granado's account was published in 2003, entitled Travelling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary.
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Alberto Granado 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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Alberto Granado died of natural causes on March 5,2011, at the age of 88.
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One of his sons, named Alberto Granado, is head of Cuba's Africa House, a center in Havana that celebrates African culture.
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Alberto Granado is portrayed by Rodrigo de la Serna in the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries based on his and Guevara's trip around South America.
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Alberto Granado has a brief cameo following the epilogue of the film.