The film, entirely made clandestinely, criticized Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship and the media's official discourse. "Ya es tiempo de violencia" was thought to have been destroyed in the turmoil of the 1976 coup d'état and the "Dirty War," but a copy of it was in fact stored by the Cuban film institute Icaic. In 2007, the film was brought back to Buenos Aires by Fernando Krichmar, a member of the "Grupo Cine Insurgente" (Insurgent Cine Group), and Aprocinain ("Asociación para el Apoyo Patrimonial Audiovisual y la Cinemateca Nacional") made another copy of it to insure its preservation.