Alberto Granado Alberto Granado Alberto Granado Jiménez (August 8, 1922March 5, 2011) was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America. Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. He authored the memoir "Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary", which served as a reference for the 2004 film "The Motorcycle Diaries", in which he was played by Rodrigo de la Serna. An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film. Granado
Strigoi or a hybrid of the two that was said to crave human flesh and blood, particularly of infants. The Croatian Jure Grando, who died in 1656, is often considered the first alleged vampire whose existence is documented. In the earliest published description of the Grando case (in German), from Valvasor's "The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola" (1689), the local term was given as "strigon". Dimitrie Cantemir mentions the "striga" as being a Moldavian and especially Transylvanian belief in his "" (1714–1716), though his version corresponds more closely to the classical notion of a witch or sorceress than a blood-drinking