Inequity. A Trip through Latin America: The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Abstract

Two youths, Ernesto Guevara of 23 years, student advanced of medicine and Alberto Granado of 29 years, biochemical, begun a trip through Latin America through 5 countries. This trip through for more than 12.000 kilometers is initiated in Argentina in December of 1951 and finalizes in Venezuela 8 months later. The movie relates this real history, with a hyphen based on the newspapers of trip published years ago by each one of the protagonists. It shows us the experiences of these youths in its trip where they discover the rich and complex social and human topography of the South American continent and stops especially in the time that both pass in a leper colony of the Amazonia.