Humor Registrado magazine as source for a comparative study

The dictatorship and Raúl Alfonsín’s government, change y permanency

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the changes and continuities existing in the social sphere in 1986, in relation to Argentina’s last civic-military dictatorship, from the perspective of the Humor registrado magazine. We asked, to this effect, the following questions: what was changing in the country three years after Raúl Alfonsín come into office? And, what did the Humor registrado’s columnists perceive about this? The twenty-two issues of the above-mentioned magazine published during 1986 were the source of information that made possible to carry out a comparative analysis between several actions distinctive of the previous civic-military dictatorship and those taking place over the elapsed three years of democracy.  The results obtained allowed us to list the changes occurred during that period and observe the continuities as perceived by the writers of the magazine, contemporary of those events, as well as assert that some of those issues persist nowadays, 35 years later, in our Argentine society.