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The Statue of Liberty holding a Puerto Rican flag. Her arm is chained to the flag pole but the chains as well as the stone of her hand are broken. Lettered across the centre in black, 'World Solidarity with Puerto Rico' in Spanish, English, French and Arabic.

World Solidarity With PUERTO RICOAlberto Blanco GonzálezCommissioned by OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)1981

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., often using US icons as part of visual metaphors.

This poster advocates for Puerto Rican independence from the U.S.A. The Statue of Liberty represents the U.S.A. Its crumbling hand releases the Puerto Rican flag.