Festival Artistico-Musical: ¡Viva la Huelga de Los Trabajadores! [political theater and music]

Mexico City: np, 1982. Item #10503

Poster promoting a music and arts festival to support labor struggles in Mexico, featuring a number of acts well-known as 1970s and ’80s political and countercultural performers, such as León Chávez Teixeiro, El Llanero Solitito (Enrique Cisneros Luján), and Los Nakos (misspelled her as “Los Nacos”).

Los Nakos, started during the 1968 student movement in Mexico, founded by Ismael “Maylo” Colmenares after he and others first performed parodies of state propaganda in free public shows on Mexico City’s buses and subways. Leon Chavez [Teixeiro] was born to working class parents in Mexico City; today, he is an internationally recognized activist musician. Much like Los Nakos, his career was in many ways sparked by 1968; though already involved in housing organizing, and performing on the streets of the city, it was around this period that he  co-founded La Comuna de Sor Juana. La Comuna was an artists commune in the Mexico City neighborhood Santa María la Ribera, where Teixeiro made his first compositions as El Gato, and start the group La Piel. Enrique Cisneros, better known as El Llanero Solitito [The Lone Ranger], was a theater actor focused on popular productions and social activism, and was an influential experimental director, producer, and poet.

 A remarkable poster recording the political arts movements of post-1968 Mexico City.

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