The Argentine adventurer who was immortalised as revolutionary Che Guevara's sidekick on a motorbike trip across Latin America has died, aged 1988.
Biochemist Alberto Granado appeared in Guevara's memoirs and was portrayed onscreen by actor Rodrigo De la Serna in The Motorcycle Diaries. He died in Cuba on Saturday (05Mar11).
In 1952, he and a young Guevara set off on a fabled road trip on a Norton motorcycle.
The experience turned Che into an accomplished writer and a serious advocate for change. He went on to become one of the most iconic revolutionaries of the 20th century.
His memoirs of the trip were published as The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey, while Granado penned Traveling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary.
Their journals inspired Walter Salles' 2004 movie starring De la Serna and Gael Garcia Bernal.