Dressed in black, mourners walk to a funeral.
In the procession are Videla, Viola, Galtieri and Bignone.
The dictatorship is dead.
This is how the teacher Hermenegildo Sábat portrayed in
Clarín
the end of the Process that had begun on a day like today, 47 years ago.
Sharp stroke, stripped of words.
Despite the control over what was published in those years, Sábat managed to make his political cartoons.
On one occasion, for instance, he took advantage of a government distraction during the '78 World Cup and brought Videla, Massera and Agosti together with the FIFA president on the same page.
"I look at my drawings during the dictatorship and I think it's a miracle to be alive,"
he used to recall to his colleagues in the newspaper.
But given the choice in his endless chest of drawings, the teacher preferred to keep one of
Gardel taking off his hat to welcome Alfonsín.
This was Sábat, an essential democrat who has been missed every day since he left us almost 5 years ago.
On one occasion he recounted that when he arrived at a hotel he had to fill out a form asking for his profession.
He put
"democrat"
.
And that he had several: writer, painter, musician, poet, cartoonist, cartoonist, photographer.
This year, on the 40th anniversary of democracy, his family and friends are enthusiastic about preparing an exhibition that reviews contemporary Argentine history through his work.
A tour to savor with a smile.
Because that was what the teacher was looking to generate with his drawings.
"We live in very pathetic times, and I hope that people just smile,"
he said.
With Gardel's smile when greeting the return of democracy.