5/28/2023 0 Comments Che by Héctor Germán Oesterheld![]() ![]() ![]() Other than 19-year-old Beatriz, whose body was later found, none of them were ever seen again. When troops captured all four of the Oesterheld women, the fact that two of them were pregnant mattered little. Oesterheld’s support of an aggressive left-wing guerrilla group called Montoneros in the 1970s - backed by the writer’s four grown daughters - angered members of the violent military campaign that had occupied Argentina’s government. ![]() They yanked it out of circulation and destroyed the book’s printing plates. Government officials found the political themes in Oesterheld’s very popular comics - among them, the graphic biography of revolutionary “Che” Guevara that Oesterheld had penned with Argentine father-and-son artists Alberto and Enrique Breccia - cause for punishment. The fascist dictatorship had produced a “dirty war,” which meant that a military regime had begun silencing leftist sentiment by force. Buenos Aires-born comics writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld was nearing his 59th birthday when heavily militarized Argentine death squads kidnapped him in the spring of 1977. ![]()
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