The motorcycle companion of revolutionary icon Ernesto Che Guevara, Alberto Granado, has passed away at the age of 88 in Cuba, Press TV reported.
Granado was born in Cordoba, Argentina, on August 8, 1922, and met Guevara as a child.
The journey, begun in 1951, exposed the two medical students to deep poverty and social injustice and awoke Guevara's revolutionary convictions.
After arriving in Cuba in 1961, Granado taught biochemistry at Havana University.
Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia in 1967 as he tried to lead a revolution in the country.
The pair's eight-month journey around Latin America was immortalized in the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries.
The film of their travels around Latin America on the motorcycle they called La Poderosa (The Powerful) was based on diaries both men kept.
In the film, Granado was played by Argentine actor Rodrigo De la Serna. Gael Garcia Bernal played Che.
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