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There flows from Latin America

Poster
ca. 1970s (made)
Artist/Maker
The Poster Collective (designer)
Grunwick Strike Committee (designer)
Unknown
Place of origin
London (made)

Portrait poster campaigning to end capitalism, as it is harming Latin America. The poster has a black background at the top and bottom, with a large dark blue section at the bottom. It also features a cut out photograph of two men, General Pinochet, director of Chile and General Videla of Argentina stood in the back of a car saluting, whilst it is being driven by a military man, with another man sat next to him, also saluting. The poster features a large amount of text.

Object details

Categories
Posters
Prints
Politics
Object type
Poster
TitleThere flows from Latin America (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Printing, paper, plastic laminate
Plastic Laminate
Paper
Printing
Brief description
Poster entitled 'There flows from Latin America', made by the Poster Film Collective, London.
Physical description
Portrait poster campaigning to end capitalism, as it is harming Latin America. The poster has a black background at the top and bottom, with a large dark blue section at the bottom. It also features a cut out photograph of two men, General Pinochet, director of Chile and General Videla of Argentina stood in the back of a car saluting, whilst it is being driven by a military man, with another man sat next to him, also saluting. The poster features a large amount of text.
Dimensions
  • Height: 84.6cm
  • Width: 56.9cm
Dimensions include plastic laminate.
Marks and inscriptions
  • There flows from Latin America to the United States a constant / torrent of money some $4,000 dollars per minute, $15 million / a day, $2 billion a year, $10 billion each five years. For each / $1,000 which leave us one dead body remains, a $1,000 per / death, that is the price of what is called imperialism. (In top black part of the poster.)
  • Everything around us, everything we consume in our daily lives / betrays the omnipresent foreign invasion. We are diapered at birth / by Johnson & Johnson. We survive on Nestle or Gloria milk. We / dress in synthetic clothes produced by French, British or North American / Firms. We brush out teeth with Colgate toothpaste and Tek / brushes. We wash with Lever and Palmolive soaps shave with Gillette / and Williams. We defy the summer sun with US ice cream and / Coca Cola; and now even the biggest producer of cachaca, the national / white rum drink, is owned by Coca Cola. We ride in Otis elevators, / drive Volkswagens and Fords and ship our goods on Mercedes-Benz / trucks fuelled by Esso and Shell. We roll on Pirelli tires, we talk on / Ericson telephones, type on Olivetti machines and communicate by Siemens... [rest of text obscured by photograph] (In blue section of poster)
  • I saw them bury a dead child / In a cardboard box / (This is true and I don't forget it) / On the box there was a stamp / "General Electric Company / Progress is our Most Important Product" / Luis Alfredo Arango (In black, in the blue section of the poster)
  • With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10% will ensure its employment / anywhere, 20% certain will produce eagerness; 50%, positive audacity; 100% will / make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300%, and there is not a crime at which / it will not run, even to the chance of being hanged. If turbulence and strife will being / a profit, it will freely encourage both. / quote in Capital from a Quarterly Review (In bottom black section of poster)
Credit line
Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop.
Object history
Poster featured in the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?'
Places depicted
Chile
Argentina
Bibliographic reference
From the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?'
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.582-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1275009/there-flows-from-latin-america-poster-unknown/
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