Che’s ‘Motorcycle Diaries’ companion dies in Cuba

HAVANA (Reuters) – Alberto Granado, who accompanied fellow Argentine Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara on a trip immortalized in the film The Motorcycle Diaries, died in Cuba yesterday at the age of 88, Cuba’s state-run media reported.

The report said his ashes would be spread in Argentina, Cuba and Venezuela.

The famous trip across South America, begun in late 1951 on Granado’s old British motorcycle, supposedly awakened in Guevara a sympathy