The Motorcycle Diaries (book) not the only person that was editing and reshaping his notes. While Paulo Drinot contends that the Cuban government, as well as others, reworked the texts for self-fashioning or political benefits. However, Drinot also points out that Guevara's introduction explicitly mentions how the notes are "reorganized" and "polished", and that such a practicality should in no way undermine its utility as a historical source. The Motorcycle Diaries (book) The Motorcycle Diaries () is a memoir that traces the early travels of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist. Leaving
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