Tango has long chronicled those times. In doing so, it continues to offer a vocabulary for confronting a world where decency is in short supply and moral responsibility and kindness even more so.
The far right disputes memory in order to open up the possibility of authoritarian government on the horizon of expectations. Our horizon is built from a different place: the idea that fascism will never return, ever again.
That in 1977, during a brutal military dictatorship, Oesterheld and his four daughters were all "disappeared" added immeasurably to the graphic novel's resonance. Today it's regarded as an Argentine pop culture classic.
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