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His work reflects a desperate search for heroism, at first in adventure stories and then among real-world figures like Eva Perón and Che Guevara, who star in his comics less as historical figures than as avatars of his passionate leftism. When his aliens invade an imaginary Argentina, feckless governments abandon a persecuted citizenry, who have to resist the invaders as guerrillas. His war stories privilege moral ambiguity over daring exploits. His cowboys are villains who oppress courageous Indians. When Oesterheld departed from convention, it was to tweak reigning pieties. Oesterheld and three of his four daughters were among los desaparecidos, “the disappeared,” those people who were kidnapped and almost certainly murdered by the regime the fourth died during a botched abduction.įor most of his life, Oesterheld was a beloved writer of pulp adventures-Westerns, stories of alien invasion, tales of the battlefield in the Second World War-that often bend or break genre rules. It was known mainly by its ironic nickname, the Sheraton. Oesterheld was a prisoner of the Argentine junta at some of its most notorious facilities, among them a detention and torture center situated in a police station in the Villa Insuperable neighborhood in the province of Buenos Aires. His physical condition was very bad indeed. Héctor Oesterheld was sixty years old when this

Hands with all the prisoners present, one by one. Then Héctor said that as he was the oldest he wanted to shake They also allowed us to talk to each other for five The guards gave us permission to take off our hoods and smoke aĬigarette.