Alberto Granado is 82 this month. His skin is mottled by a lifetime of soaking up Latin American sun and his hands are twisted by arthritis. Yet, more than 50 years ago, the same hands guided him and ...

What began as a journey to discover a homeland turned into a political odyssey for Alberto Granado and his friend Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Granado, who died March 5 at 88, wanted one more thrill before ...

Emotions ran high at the competition screening of Walter Salles‘ “The Motorcycle Diaries” when frail 81-year-old Alberto Granado mounted the stage to accept the ovation of the ecstatic black-tie crowd ...

Based on Guevara's diaries, discovered long after his death, "The Motorcycle Diaries," by "Central Station" director Walter Salles, follows Guevara and his pal Alberto Granado as they travel across ...

HAVANA - Alberto Granado, who accompanied Ernesto "Che" Guevara on a 1952 journey of discovery across Latin America that was immortalized in Guevara's memoir and on-screen in "The Motorcycle Diaries," ...

This moving memoir recounts an eight-month-long South American tour that Granado, then a 29-year-old doctor, and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, then a 23-year-old med student, took in 1952. Guevara recounted ...

Hence, I’m not as privileged as some of my colleagues in ascertaining the accuracy of casting Gael García Bernal as the 23-year-old Ché and Rodrigo De la Serna as the 29-year-old Alberto Granado. I ...

Brazilian director Walter Salles (“Central Station”) directed this acclaimed drama about the arduous journey through South America taken by a young Che Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his good friend ...

The pair's eight-month journey around Latin America was immortalised in the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries. The journey, started in 1951, exposed the two medical students to deep poverty and social ...