However, when Che's comic book was published, it was removed from distribution and all copies of it were destroyed and banned by the ruling military dictatorship at the time, self-styled as "Argentine Revolution" (1966–1973) —the original drawings were saved and hidden by Enrique Breccia (Alberto's son and a comic book artist himself, who illustrated the final chapter of Vida del Che), and it was finally republished in 2008—[1] Knowing that he and Breccia were facing such a similar situation as with Vida del Che, Oesterheld stopped the whole project for Eva Perón's biographical comic.

In 2002, the editor Javier Doeyo found the original script written by Oesterheld at the house of Breccia's widow, while searching for material for another project.

The art was already published as described, and the colours were removed to restore the originally intended black & white by using image editing software.

In 2007 it was edited again by Clarín (this time with colour, following the 1970 version), along with Vida del Che, as part of a series of reprints of noteworthy comic books.

Alberto Breccia would explain that "My work is testimonial, it can't be otherwise, because it includes characters like Goulart, Frondizi, Mao...".