"First we wanted to know the world, we wanted to change it"
Alberto Granado is dead, comrade di Ernesto Che Guevara nel celebre viaggio in moto per il Sudamerica. Granado, 88 anni, è morto sabato 5 marzo nel sonno nella sua casa del quartiere Miramar dell'Avana, Le sue ceneri saranno sparse tra Cuba, Venezuela e Argentina, lo aveva lasciato scritto come «ultimo suo desiderio». Dopo il viaggio insieme al Chè per il Sudamerica negli anni 50, Granado, nato in Argentina nel 1922, era rimasto in Venezuela, dove aveva sposato la venezuelana Delia, dalla quale aveva avuto tre figli. La camera ardente è stata allestita nel quartiere del Vedado all'Avana, dove centinaia di persone gli hanno dato l'ultimo 
saluto; tra queste Aleida Guevara, vedova del Che. Accanto al feretro di Granado, the wreaths of Fidel and Raul Castro.
Astride the powerful - They left their on board the mighty Argentina, a Norton motorbike in 1939, with the idea of \u200b\u200bexploring the South American continent . It was 1952. Granado was then 30 years, Che, 23. One would then become the most celebrated revolutionary of the twentieth century, who died in Bolivia in 1967. The other, Alberto Granado, then 30 years old, majoring in pharmacology, were transferred in the early 60s in Castro's Cuba, where he founded the Medical School of Santiago. But that trip would always be remembered, to the last. Until Saturday morning, when to 88 years has died of natural causes in Havana.
PHYSICIAN - Shortly after, in 1960, Guevara urged the island's old friend Granado, who decided to stay and live there with his family, teaching biochemistry at the University of Havana . In 1962 he founded with a group of colleagues in the Faculty of Medicine at Santiago, where he taught from 1970 to 1974. Since he moved, Granado has always lived on the island keeping a low profile.
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