Pedro Valtierra, photograph

¡El Enemigo Es El Mismo! [South-South solidarity, internationalism]

Mexico City: Comité Manos Fuera de Nicaragua, 1984. 14 ½ x 21 ½ in. Edgewear with slight loss, else very good. Item #10513

A superb poster produced in Mexico in solidarity with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, drawing comparisons between the U.S. invasion of Mexico in 1847 and the shadow invasion of Nicaragua with the U.S. sponsored Contras, famously funded by illegal American arms sales to Iran.

This poster is illustrated with an image of a young woman member of the Sandinista fighting force; the photograph, titled “Idalia” was taken in Estelí, Nicaragua, 1980, by the famed Mexican photojournalist, Pedro Valtierra. Valtierra is a celebrated documentary photographer whose career began at El Sol de México and El Sol de Mediodía; he was also the founder of the Cuartoscuro agency and photo magazine.

The year this poster was produced, in 1984, Valtierra founded the Imagenlatina Photography Agency to connect and organize photojournalists throughout Latin America; in 1984, Valtierra was a founding editor and head of photography of the iconic leftwing Mexican newspaper La Jornada.

A superb record of Latin American solidarity against American imperialism, illustrated with a photograph by one of the most influential and renowned Mexican photojournalists of the post-war period.

Price: $450.00