“The Internet User”: Netflix series relaunches search for victims of the Argentine junta
The military junta in power in Argentina between 1976 and 1983 had Hector Oesterheld, author of the legendary comic strip "The Eternaut," and his four daughters, two of whom were pregnant at the time of their abduction, "disappeared" due to their opposition activities. The success of the work's recent adaptation on Netflix has renewed hope of identifying two of its creator's grandchildren.
The huge success of the series L'Éternaute , available in its entirety on Netflix, could help finally find two grandchildren of the creator of the cult Argentinian comic strip from which it is adapted, who were kidnapped by the military junta then in power (1976-1983). This is, in any case, what several Argentinian human rights organizations are hoping, which have relaunched a campaign to try to find out what happened to them.
The story goes back more than forty years, and it's tragic: Argentina's last military dictatorship decimated the family of the creator of L'Éternaute , Hector Oesterheld. Twenty years after the publication of his iconic comic, the junta kidnapped and murdered the author, who was part of the Montoneros guerrilla group, along with his four daughters (two of whom were pregnant at the time of their capture) and stepsons. He was 48 years old, his daughters were between 19 and 25. Like those of 30,000 Argentines who suffered the same fate during this period, their bodies have never been found.
The junta then had a practice of making pregnant prisoners give birth in captivity, and of taking the newborns before murdering the mothers. An estimated 500 babies were stolen in this way. Organizations
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