including Argentina's 1966-1973 military dictatorship. After a failed 1987 coup against President Raul Alfonsin, Quino published a cartoon of Mafalda saying "Yes to democracy! Yes to justice!

The cartoon was eventually published in 27 languages. He was able to use Mafalda's apparent innocence to spread scathing criticism of the dictatorships that plagued Latin America from the 1960s, ...