Por El Mar de Las Antillas, Otro Barco Va por Cuba

Mexico City: Luis Cardoza y Aragon & Miguel Concha, 1960. 16 ¾ x 21 3/4 in. Edgewear and several closed tears that have been repaired at verso. Otherwise very good..

Poster produced in protest of the American naval blockade of Cuba - specifically the oil blockade - American state aggression which has again been seen in recent months as the Trump regime heightens a long-lasting campaign of U.S. imperialism in the Americas.

The poster depicts a frightened Uncle Sam dancing in fear as a ship bearing the Mexican flag travels across the sea, presumably toward Cuba; it also solicits donations to support the Cuban cause, with the two administrators of the fund identified as Luis Cardoza y Aragon and Miguel Concha. Concha was a longtime human rights advocate, an educator, and a Franciscan friar. After an extensive career dedicated to promoting human rights in the Global South, Concha died in 2023. Luis Cardoza y Aragon was a Guatemalan artist, writer, poet, and diplomat who was at this time living in Mexico, exiled by the rightwing Guatemalan government. Friends with Andre Breton, David Alfaro Siquieros, Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales, Diego Rivera, and many others throughout his career, Cardoza y Aragon was committed to putting his artistic abilities to the service of anti-colonial causes.

An extraordinary document of Latin American solidarity in the face of U.S. imperialism, and an artifact of struggles against American aggression that persist today.