Organización de Solidaridad
con los Pueblos de Asia, Africa y América Latina (OSPAAAL)
posters:
The Organización
de Solidaridad con los Pueblos de Asia, Africa y América
Latina (OSPAAAL) or Organisation for Solidarity with the People
of Africa, Asia and Latin America was founded in Havana in January
1966 after the Tricontinental Conference, a meeting of leftist delegates
from Guinea, the Congo, South Africa, Angola, Vietnam, Syria, North
Korea, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Cuba, Puerto Rico,
Chile and the Dominican Republic. Alongside its campaigning work
and the publication of the journal Tricontinental it also produced
Cuban propaganda posters until ink shortages prevented this in the
mid-1980s (although printing did begin again in 2000).
[Africa dollars] /
Olivio Martinez [Havana : OSPAAAL, 1975]
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This poster
depicts a rapacious figure clad in the United States flag
transforming the blood squeezed from the African continent
into dollars. There is disagreement over its production date,
with OSPAAAL themselves claiming it to be 1971, whilst the
University of California's 'Cuban
Poster Art' catalogue suggests it is in fact 1975. Given
the subject matter in would seem more likely to be the latter,
as it was only by the mid-1970s that Africa's debt crisis
emerged as a significant international issue.Please
click the image for an enlarged view of the poster. |
60 / Rolando Córdoba [Havana : OSPAAAL,
1977]
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This poster
was produced to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1917
Russian Revolution. This choice of subject is likely to have
been influenced by the strengthening of ties between Cuba
and the Soviet Union which occurred in the 1970s.Please
click the image for an enlarged view of the poster. |
Uruguay : freedom for political prisoners
/ Rafael Enriquez [Havana : OSPAAAL, 1980]
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The text of
the title here appears in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.
Uruguay was ruled by a military government from 1973 to 1985,
whose policy of 'preventive repression' meant that by 1976
the country had the most political prisoners per capita in
the world. As this regime was strongly pro-Western and anti-communist
it is easy to see why those it imprisoned would find support
in Cuba..Please click the image
for an enlarged view of the poster. |
World solidarity with the Cuban Revolution
/ Victor Manuel Navarrete. [Havana : OSPAAAL, 1980]
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The text of
the title here appears in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.
This is in keeping both with the sentiments of the poster
and the international market OSPAAAL appealed to through Tricontinental,
which often contained posters as their centrefolds. The attack
on the United States may have been in part a response to US
propaganda following the emigration of 125 000 Cubans in the
'Mariel boat lift' incident in 1980. Please
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Day of the heroic guerrilla,
October 8 / Olivio Martinez. [Havana : OSPAAAL, 1978]
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The text of
the title here appears in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.
This is one of many posters commemorating the anniversary
of the death of Che Guevara (formerly one of the leaders of
the Cuban Revolution) in Bolivia on October 8th 1967. An idealised
image is used, in contrast to portrayals both of Guevara before
his death and of other living leaders, which tend to be much
more realistic.Please click the
image for an enlarged view of the poster.
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Go home : Sept. 23
Day of Solidarity with Puerto Rico / Heriberto Echevarría.
[Havana : OSPAAAL, 1971]
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The text of
the title here appears in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico remains part of the territory
of the United States, and consequently the issue of independence
has intermittently mobilised Puerto Rican and international
public opinion. In 1971 the army took possession of the majority
of Culebra Island, and it is likely to have been the expansion
of the US military presence in Puerto Rico that provides the
background for this poster.Please
click the image for an enlarged view of the poster.
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