Word: superkids
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Popular Unity published comic books of their own, too. For instance, there was Superkid, a foolish-looking but brave boy whose powers included flight, except for once in awhile when he faltered because he hadn't eaten enough fish. Traditionally, Chileans have looked unfavorably on fish, although many Chileans fish for a living, as they would almost have to in such a skinny country with such a long coastline. So Allende's government wanted people to respect fishing more and to eat more fish. One of its best posters showed a sunburned, sadlooking young man with a squarish head...
...soon as Superkid could fly again, he went off to beat up some of the shopkeepers he'd heard were hoarding food and causing the shortages that had middle-class housewives--and poor people, too, though under previous governments, before redistributive inflation through wage increases and price controls, many of them would have done without altogether--queueing up for meat and other goods or even not finding them at all. Superkid's friends tried to explain to him that it wasn't the small shopkeepers who were hoarding goods, and that he couldn't accomplish anything without everyone else...
...Superkid isn't available in Chile any more, and the artists who joined the Ramona Para brigades because they believed art could speak to everyone will have to go back to speaking to a small, elite audience. In the days after September's coup soldiers went through Santiago whitewashing walls as well as burning books and killing people they disliked. One of the 6000 prisoners in the National Stadium after the coup was a pro-Popular Unity singer, a man named Jarra. An officer in the stadium took a hatchet and cut off Jarra's fingers, according to a purportedly...