Ernesto García Peña, “THE CHILEAN PEOPLE WILL SMASH FASCISM”, 1976

Offset lithograph poster depicting the silhouette of a man wearing glasses and holding a gun. Behind him is a Chilean flag. Lettered across the bottom in white, 'The Chilean People Will Smash Fascism' in Spanish, English, French and Arabic.

“THE CHILEAN PEOPLE WILL SMASH FASCISM”

Creator: Ernesto García Peña
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1976

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.

Figurative painter Ernesto García Peña’s only poster for OSPAAAL portrayed the socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende.