In 1952, a 23-year-old Argentine medical student named Ernesto Guevara set out on a battered Norton 500cc motorcycle, La Poderosa II, to traverse the length of South America. What began as an adventure through the Atacama deserts, Amazonian villages, and Colombian highlands became a radical awakening for him. He saw it all. Poverty, exploitation, and the inequities of the continent, as he witnessed them, shaped the experiences that would forge Che Guevara, and the revolutionary ideals that define his life.
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Around 73-years later, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who tried to give the Congress a Marxist look before general elections last year, has landed in Colombia's Bogota, kicking off his four-nation tour across South America's leftist heartlands. Though this isn't by design, Rahul's journey and reference to motorcycles during the trip seems like his very ow
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