Alberto Granado - Death

Death

Granado died of natural causes on March 5, 2011, at the age of 88. According to Cuban television, Granado requested that his body be cremated and his ashes spread in Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela.

His death coincidentally occurred on the 51st anniversary of when Che's famous Guerrillero Heroico photograph was taken.

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