The Eternaut - Blog Posts
“My name is Elsa Sánchez de Oesterheld, and I am the wife of Héctor Germán Oesterheld, world-famous for writing the comic strip El Eternauta. During this country’s tragic era, my four daughters, my husband, my two sons-in-law, another son-in-law I never met, and two unborn grandchildren disappeared. Ten people disappeared in my family. But I prefer to remember the years when I was happy.”
Elsa Sánchez de Oesterheld - "Los Oesterheld" (2016) A Biography.
In the picture, the four Oesterheld daughters, ages between 14 and 19 years old. They were part of the "Unión de estudiantes secundarios" (High school students union).
Argentina's last civic-military dictatorship that took place from 1976 to 1983, supported and financed by the C.I.A. from the United States through the so-called "Operation Condor"; kidnapped thousands of people, took them to clandestine camps, tortured them mercilessly, stole their children and disappeared them by extrajudicial executions disposing their bodies secretly.
people in here, if you like apocaliptic alien sci-fi shit you can watch The Eternaut on Netflix, an argentinian show based on a comic book from 1957 whose creator (Héctor Germán Oesterheld) and his family were abducted by one of the many military dictatorships in my country
the story happens in Buenos Aires and explores the ideas of community and strenght against the opressors, and also contains lots of Argentina dope amazing references and insults
its motto is "no one survives alone", a really necessary message in our times
you may know its main actor, Ricardo Darin, from The Secret in Their Eyes (Best Foreign Film 2010, winner), Wild Tales (Best Foreign Film 2015, nominated) and Argentina, 1985 (Best Foreign Film 2023, nominated)
The Eternaut comic book is considered as one of the most important latin-american sci-fi works ever, and it's culturally respected because it's the product of a really dark time in our history (the Netflix adaptation is set today tho)
