Rafael Enríquez Vega, World Solidarity With CUBA, 1980 | Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Offset lithograph poster depicting a hand with a stars and stripes cuff, holding a gun with the barrel bent back to point at the shooter. In front of the gun is a Cuban flag. Lettered in white in Spanish, French, English and Arabic.

World Solidarity With CUBA

Creator: Rafael Enríquez Vega
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1980

Between the 1960s and 1990s, more than fifty designers worked at OSPAAAL (the Organisation of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America). Based in Cuba, they made magazines and posters that were sent around the world. Their aim was to promote radical political ideas. Many of their posters celebrate socialist revolutions and liberation movements from the Global South. They also criticised the foreign policy of the U.S.A.

In this design, the Cuban flag represents the Cuban revolution repelling the U.S. military, represented by the hand of fictional character Uncle Sam.