Rafael Enríquez Vega, SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF HAITI, 1980

Offset lithograph poster on a grey ground with a large photograph of a child looking outwards with a smaller silhouette of two people dragging a person along the ground. Lettered across the top in green, 'Solidarity with the People of Haiti' in English, French and Spanish.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF HAITI

Designed by: Rafael Enríquez Vega
Creator: Víctor Manuel Navarrete
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. 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.

To show support for people in Haiti experiencing state-sponsored violence, Rafael Enríquez Vega contrasted a silhouette of a limp body being dragged away with a photograph of a child by fellow designer Víctor Manuel Navarrete. The identity of the child is not recorded as part of the design.