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This is the motorbike that was used in the film The Motorcycle Diana. It is a 1939 Norton 500cc, which is the same model as the motorbike that belonged to Ćhe's friend Alberto. The film. whose theme song won an Oscar, is based on the motorbike journey Che madę with Alberto across South America. Che was trom a rirh family in Argentina and it was the poverty he saw on this trip that madę him decide that revolution was the only answer to South Amertca s problems.

B Gael Garda Bernal is the actor who played Che in the film The Motorcycle Diaries. He is from Guadalajara in Mexico, and has also starred in And your mother too and Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education.

‘ Rosario is the town in Argentina where Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was born on 14th May 1928. He was tbe f irst of five children, and his parents, Ernesto and

Celia, were potitical radicals. From the

age of two the young Che suffered from

asthma, but his fatber told him that

Alberto Korda was the photographer whose photo now appears on T-shirts and posters all over the world. The photo, which was taken in 1960, is probably one of the best-known photos in the world -but Korda never received a penny in royalties. However, five years ago he took the people who had madę money from the photo to court, and won £30,000. which he gave to the Cuban health service.