
El Eternauta introduced a new way of understanding comic strips: it transcended the limits of mere escapism to become an adult and politically committed story.

Some time in 1957, Argentine writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld created a highly metaphorical and political graphic novel. It has been fifty years since the adventures of Juan Salvo were first published in the science fiction comic El Eternauta. For 24 hours, his death reawakens the political divisions. The Death of Pinochet (La Muerte de Pinochet) Bettina Perut & Iván Osnovikoff On December 10, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly in Santiago’s Military Hospital. The Day That Lasted 21 Years (O DIA QUE DUROU 21 ANOS) Camilo Tavares The Day that Lasted 21 Years reveals how and why the United States supported a conspiracy to overthrow the Brazilian elected President Joao Goulart in. With My Heart in Yambo (Con Mi Corazón en Yambo) María Fernanda Restrepo In 1988, when director María Fernanda Restrepo was only 10 years old, her life changed in the cruelest of ways: her two brothers-then 14 and. Clandestine Childhood (Infancia Clandestina) Benjamin Ávila Benjamín Ávila’s Clandestine Childhood (Infancia Clandestina) is an earnestly heartfelt cine-memoir based on the director/co-writer’s own tragic. Related Films The Metal Stork (La cigüeña metálica) Joan Lòpez Lloret Twenty years have passed since the signing of the Peace Accords that ended the civil war in El Salvador (1980-92), a conflict in which the army and the.
