The Motorcycle Diaries
South American travelogue
A 2004 film and the memoir it adapts, recounting Ernesto "Che" Guevara's 1952 journey across South America as a young medical student.
The motorcycle trip—with friend Alberto Granado—exposed Guevara to poverty and injustice that shaped his later revolutionary politics.
The title refers to his travel journal: I finally saw The Motorcycle Diaries last night.
- CheArgentine term of address
- GuevaraArgentine Marxist revolutionary
- journeyTravel from place to place
- open roadUnobstructed route ahead
- ArgentinaSouthern cone republic
South America · memoir · revolution · social justice · travel · adventure · poverty · leper colony · awakening · Norton · 1950s · Chile · Peru · Latin America · roadtrip · youth · idealism · coming of age
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