Alberto Granado 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 by Alberto Korda. With his Venezuela-born wife Delia Maria Duque Duque (married in 1955), he had three children (Alberto, Delita and Roxana). One of his sons, also named Alberto Granado, is head of Cuba's Africa House, a center in Havana that celebrates African culture. Alberto Granados was featured on the documentary film . He is portrayed by Rodrigo de la Serna in the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries based on
Guerrillero Heroico Korda continued to print both versions of the image up until his death. To take the photograph, Korda used a Leica M2 with a 90 mm lens, loaded with Kodak Plus-X pan film. In speaking about the method, Korda remarked that "this photograph is not the product of knowledge or technique. It was really coincidence, pure luck." As a lifelong communist and supporter of the Cuban Revolution until his death, Alberto Korda claimed no payment for his picture. A modified version of the portrait through the decades was also reproduced on a range of different media, though Korda never asked