Gladys Acosta Ávila, NO TO THE GUANTANAMO NAVAL BASE!, 1993

Colour offset lithograph poster on a blue ground with an illustration of an eagle in flight, clutching Cuba in its talons. Lettered in large white letters across the bottom in Spanish, 'No to the Guantanamo Naval Base!', and in black top left in English and French.

NO TO THE GUANTANAMO NAVAL BASE!

Creator: Gladys Acosta Ávila
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1993

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.

In this design, Gladys Acosta Ávila uses an eagle to represent the U.S.A. Its talons are hovering over the south of Cuba where the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay Naval Base was established in 1903.