Five Press Photos from Tito's Trip to Mexico [Yugoslavia, Mexico, Non-Aligned Movement]

Mexico: Manana: La Revista de Mexico, 1963. Five vintage silver gelatin prints, 2 ½ x 4 in. Each stamped at verso and captioned.

Five press photos from Yugoslav President Josip Broz
Tito's first visit to Mexico, October 1963, documenting this important state visit between two leading members of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Yugoslavia, the co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, which sought a "third path" beyond the shadow of either the Soviet Union or the United States, forged strong ties with Mexico under Tito. During this trip, Tito was widely celebrated by the Mexican public and received warm welcomes from large crowds; he and his wife were also guests of honor at a bullfight, as pictured here. This trip helped strengthen trading and cultural ties between the two countries.

Culturally, one of the long-lasting effects of their partnership was the birth Yu-Mex, in which Yugoslav musicians played mariachi and traditional revolutionary Mexican ballads, sung in Serbian and Spanish. Mexican revolutionary cinema was widely shown in Yugoslavia, a socialist republic that was committed to establishing a cultural and artistic viewpoint independent from the dogmas Western or Soviet propaganda.

Critical documentation of a third path during the Cold War.