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CUBA AND 'DEAD Alberto Granado, SUPPORTER OF THE FAIR CUBAN REVOLUTION

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CUBA AND 'DEAD Alberto Granado, FAIR SUPPORTER OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION AND

' Alberto Granado died yesterday in Havana. She was 89 years, and has often been unjustly remembered only as a traveling companion of Ernesto Guevara between 1951 and 1952 in the famous motorcycle trip through the South American continent. Alberto was also, and above all, a proud supporter of the Cuban revolution, which consists, transfers from Venezuela in 1960. For all was the "doctor", who in those years stood up and walked a center specializing in cutting edge medical and biological research, are now the pride of 'Isla.

He loved travel, Alberto, but always remembered as the spirit that animated him in undertaking was not simply the desire to know the world, but also to transform it.

Hello Alberto, proud supporter of revolucion!

The Motorcycle Diaries
	Argentina, 1952. Two friends discover Latin America. Ernesto Guevara has 23 years, he studied medicine. Alberto Granado he is 29 years and holds a degree in biology. Depart from Buenos Aires aboard a Norton 500 in 1939, "the powerful ". Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela. Eight months. People and places. A continent which was expected. The Chilean copper mines and the miners' conditions. The Amazon and the Peruvian leper colony in San Pablo. Colombia , the youth events, the arrest. Venezuela, Granado who stops to make the researcher. He wakes the seeds of the men who will become later. It defines the way in which ethical and political dedicated their lives. On that trip the two young men find their place in the world. The Motorcycle Diaries is based on the written memoirs of Guevara (Latin American , Feltrinelli) and Granado (A gypsy sedentary , Sperling & Kupfer), and arises from the combined efforts of Robert Redford, producer, and journalist Gianni Mina (who have long sought to make a film based on those memories).
	What happened after that trip? Guevara returned to Argentina, he graduated, returned to join his friend, but he stumbled the repression of the miners' strike in Bolivia and in the coup in Guatemala and Mexico. He met the young Cubans who were preparando la rivoluzione contro Batista e si unì a loro. Quattro anni dopo era il comandante Che Guevara, otto anni dopo chiamava a Cuba il suo vecchio amico. Che lo raggiunse, fondò la scuola di medicina di Santiago e avviò la ricerca biotecnologica. Ora Granado è un pensionato povero ma non si è mai pentito di aver fatto questa scelta. "La mia lunga esistenza - ha dichiarato - è stata segnata da tre fattori fondamentali: la mia innata capacità di essere fedele ai miei sogni, la mia eterna amicizia per Ernesto Guevara, il mio impegno nella costruzione della Rivoluzione cubana. E sono grato alla vita per quello che mi ha dato".
		recensione tratta da "La Repubblica"
	Solo per essere un film "on the road" sarebbe un film da citare, ma ritengo non sia solo questo, in esso sono condensati anche i miei ricordi giovanili, miti mai spenti e il piacere di godere di un film con una struttura semplice, lineare, che ha resistito al rischio di cadere in facili soliloqui o sopratutto in mitismi edulcorati sul personaggio principale. Ha seguito la trama dei due libri scritti dai due protagonisti, riportando alla luce due young people with the desire for freedom, fun and availability typical of youth. Beautiful pictures of landscapes are encountered that make us go through the entire South American continent. My review

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