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 Che’s Motorcycle Amigo Is DeadPosted on Mar 6, 2011
Alberto Granado, companion to Cuban revolutionary icon Che Guevara on a 1950s journey of discovery by motorcycle across Latin America, has died in Havana at the age of 88.
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By Vicki_in_Greece, March 8, 2011 at 12:51 pm Link to this comment
May he rest in peace.
Report thisThe (2004) movie you speak of “Motorcycle Diaries” was
quite good, I like that the script was taken from the
diaries of the two protagonists. At the end of the
movie, in the last frames I was thrilled to see the
contemporary Dr. Granado; that was a wonderful ending.
By Bill Perkins, March 7, 2011 at 10:37 pm Link to this comment
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Ah yes, Che the romantic, who quipped, “I ended the
Report thisproblem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of
his brain…. His belongings were now mine.”
By Sergio, March 7, 2011 at 3:51 pm Link to this comment
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Che was not Cuban as your note implies. he was Argentinian.
Report thisBy louiss123, March 7, 2011 at 9:27 am Link to this comment
Jeez…what is it with lefties and socialism? Che himself said..“not much
Report thisdifference between socialists and capitalists..they both want power”. Castro has
pulled many fingernails out with pliers with those who disagreed with him. In
the 80’s I was a big supporter of the Sandanistas in Nicaragua. Years later I met
a Nicaraguan school teacher from that time. She rolled her eyes at pampered
Americans who romanticized that conflict.Both the Sandanistas and the Contras
would barge into her school and take the 12 year old boys into forced
conscription into their armies.
She would send them running countless times into the woods to hide.
Here’s where socialism doesnt work….Cuba or Sweden..doesnt matter. What if
you dont want to do as they say? What if in your heart of hearts you disagree
and choose not to participate in the policies of that government. Thats
right..the guys with the guns will come and tale you away. -Coercion.
I am saying there is an important part of our evolution going on right now. Out
with the old in with the new. Left and right is obsolete. We have to all have deep
and long discussions about the concept of liberty. Then get out of our own way
and be united with one another.
Lets make this planet work.
By Robespierre115, March 7, 2011 at 2:55 am Link to this comment
R.I.P. Alberto.
“The Motorcycle Diaries” is a great film, young people everywhere should always be encouraged to check it out. We live in times in need of romantics and idealists!
Report thisBy TDoff, March 6, 2011 at 10:05 pm Link to this comment
Let’s hope Che has a bike warmed-up, with a sidecar Alberto can plop his butt into, so they can take off and go cross-country through the clouds, occasionally peeking down at Cuba, still free of the tentacled grasp of the Greatest Plutocratic Empire in the World.
Report thisBy NYCartist, March 6, 2011 at 3:21 pm Link to this comment
I have the DVD of “The Motorcycle Diaries”. Boring start, but good movie in 2nd half. It is the only movie that I can think of that is accurate about asthma/allergy (Che) and does not do psychosomatic bullcrap. There is a wonderful biography by Leftist Mexican author, Che: A Biography by Pablo Ignacio Taibo II and some of it is on google books.
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