Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.409.12.91
Object Name
Poster
Title
Solidarity with the people of Chile and Latin America/ National Demonstration / No U.S. Intervention in Central America / No Tory Arms for Chile
Events
Chilean Coup
Date
1981
Description
Yellow poster, "Solidarity with the People of Chile and Latin America", printed by the Chile Solidarity Campaign.
The poster has a white image of South America wrapped in barbed wire. From the top of the sub-continent is a clenched fist in red and blue. The image is over-printed with the words "National Demonstration Sunday 20 September '81 Assemble 1:00pm Clerkenwell Green EC1". At the top right (facing) is the title, and in the bottom right is text reading "No U.S. Intervention in Central America" in red and "No Tory Arms for Chile" in blue. The poster was printed by Jan Brown Designs, London.
The poster was produced by the Chile Solidarity Campaign in solidarity with the people of Chile who were living under the Military Dictatorship of Pinochet, and many countries in Central and Southern America where the United States' interventionist policies were perpetuating unrest, such as Nicaragua and El Salvador. The poster is also opposing the sale of armaments (or 'arms') to the dictatorship in Chile, which was known to be undertaking human rights abuses.
