Mafalda!

Who knows Mafalda? the Argentine Super-woman?

She was created in the late 1960s by an Argentine named Quino. He gave her revolutionist ideals for the time such as Feminist and Socialist beliefs, anti-war sentiments about Vietnam, and Idealist hopes for Argentina that was under dictatorship at the time, and would soon be experiencing a holocaust led by general Pinoche upon all political parties with left and liberal leanings. Pinoche accused all these young writers, artists and political activists as being Communists, and had them taken away from their families to be tortured and murdered.

This began the sad history of what we know call, Los Desparacidos, the disappeared.

Mothers of the disappeared still walk around Plaza de Maya in Buenos Aires every Thursday afternoon with pictures of their children to protest what happened and still hope that someone will recognize a photograph of a lost child, and help these mothers find out what happened to their disappeared.

Mafalda is a great comic, and was an aid to me while I was learning Castellano in Buenos Aires. For those of you who can read spanish, check out Mafalda!