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title: Aggression from the North poster 408 (Spanish poster distributed in Mexico City)
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description: A Spanish-language map-and-photo sheet titled 'Agresión desde el Norte'. Red arrows run from Hanoi through Laos into South Vietnam.
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# Aggression from the North poster 408 (Spanish poster distributed in Mexico City)

A Spanish-language map-and-photo sheet titled 'Agresión desde el Norte'. Red arrows run from Hanoi through Laos into South Vietnam. Four captured-soldier portraits, photographs of a sunk cargo vessel at Cabo Varella with munitions, and images of a burned clinic, a mined bus and a derailed train support the text that the war is an invasion planned in the North. The tell is card-stacking: selected evidence is arranged to permit only that reading.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
CHINA
VIETNAM SEPTENTRIONAL
HANOI
XUAN MAI
VINH
DONG HOI
TCHEPONE
HUE
DA NANG
PLEIKU
TAILANDIA
LAOS
CAMBOYA
VIETNAM MERIDIONAL
CABO VARELLA
SAIGON

AGRESION DESDE EL NORTE

La contienda en Vietnam Meridional es una guerra de agresión, cuidadosamente planeada y fieramente reñida por fuerzas invasoras procedentes de Vietnam Septentrional. Adiestrados para el combate y la subversión en bases secretas como Xuan Mai, cerca de 37,000 soldados del Viet Cong han sido infiltrados hacia Vietnam Meridional, al través del neutral Laos, desde 1959 (véase mapa). Usando armas modernas producidas por la China Comunista y otras naciones comunistas, estos soldados profesionales han encabezado a unos 80,000 guerrilleros locales en la lucha contra Vietnam Meridional. Mientras tanto, el gobierno de Hanoi ha negado que domine al Viet Cong. Ahora, un peso abrumador de pruebas revela la agresión de Vietnam Septentrional.

Aquí se presenta sólo una parte de esas pruebas: (1) fotografías tomadas en febrero de 1965, en Cabo Varella, donde un barco militar de carga norvietnamés fue hundido, después de que descargó 100 toneladas de armas y municiones comunistas chinas; (2) casos típicos de terrorismo del Viet Cong contra la población civil; y (3) ejemplos de soldados norvietnameses capturados en el Sur.

SARG. VO THOI
Jefe auxiliar de escuadrón, 22º Batallón; avanzó a través de Laos hasta la provincia de Pleiku con otros [illegible] soldados en marzo de 1963; herido, capturado en la provincia de Binh Dinh el 7 de octubre de 1963.

CAP. NGUYEN VAN DO
Comandante, 1er. Batallón, 338ª Brigada; salió de la base de adiestramiento de Xuan Mai el 4 de julio de 1963; desertó a Vietnam Meridional después de dirigir el grupo de infiltración H.26 al través de la frontera laosiana, hasta Ban Me Thuot.

COM. TRAN QUOC DAN
Comandante del 60º Batallón del Viet Cong; con 600 hombres, viajó al través de Laos hasta Vietnam Meridional en marzo de 1962. Participó en 45 encuentros; se rindió a las fuerzas vietnamitas libres el 11 de febrero de 1963.

CAP. NGUYEN THANH HOA
Comandante, 4º Batallón de la Fuerza Principal; salió de Xuan Mai con el Grupo de Infiltración 52 en abril de 1961; llegó a Vietnam Meridional en agosto de 1961; capturado en Quon Long en agosto de 1962.

Un soldado survietnamés está de pie sobre un rimero de cajas que contienen municiones del barco norvietnamés hundido.

Unos buzos se apresten a explorar el barco hundido. Encontraron cadáveres de marineros norvietnameses, y muchos documentos también norvietnameses.

Inscripciones chinas en granadas y bombas demostraron que unas y otras fueron manufacturadas en la China Comunista.

Este documento del Grupo 125 de la Marina norvietnamesa estaba entre los papeles recogidos del barco zozobrado.

Los hospitales son un blanco favorito de los terroristas del Viet Cong. Sirven a los terroristas como proveedores de medicinas, y su destrucción priva a los civiles de atención médica. Este hospital de la aldea de Vinh Binh fue destruido en 1962. Otros blancos del Viet Cong son las escuelas, estaciones agrícolas, oficinas de aldeas.

Catorce pasajeros civiles murieron y 15 salieron heridos cuando una mina del Viet Cong destruyó este ómnibus cerca de Moc Hoa el 3 de mayo de 1964. Más de 1,300 civiles murieron en parecidos incidentes terroristas tan sólo en 1964.

Los saboteadores del Viet Cong descarrilaron este tren en Thu Duc, al nordeste de Saigón, el 17 de enero de 1965. Los terroristas comunistas tratan de paralizar los transportes y las comunicaciones, como medio de socavar la situación de los gobiernos local y nacional. Dieron muerte a más de 400 funcionarios locales y secuestraron a más de 1,000 en 1964.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
AGGRESSION FROM THE NORTH

The conflict in South Vietnam is a war of aggression, carefully planned and fiercely fought by invading forces from North Vietnam. Trained for combat and subversion at secret bases such as Xuan Mai, about 37,000 Viet Cong soldiers have been infiltrated into South Vietnam, through neutral Laos, since 1959 (see map). Using modern weapons produced by Communist China and other Communist nations, these professional soldiers have led some 80,000 local guerrillas in the fight against South Vietnam. Meanwhile the Hanoi government has denied that it controls the Viet Cong. Now an overwhelming weight of evidence reveals the aggression of North Vietnam.

Only part of that evidence is presented here: (1) photographs taken in February 1965 at Cabo Varella, where a North Vietnamese military cargo ship was sunk after unloading 100 tons of Chinese Communist arms and ammunition; (2) typical cases of Viet Cong terrorism against the civilian population; and (3) examples of North Vietnamese soldiers captured in the South.

(Portrait and photograph captions as above: four captured or defecting officers with their units, dates and places; a South Vietnamese soldier on munition crates from the sunk ship; divers exploring the wreck, where North Vietnamese sailors' bodies and documents were found; Chinese inscriptions on grenades and bombs; a document of Group 125 of the North Vietnamese navy; a burned hospital at Vinh Binh in 1962; a bus mined near Moc Hoa on 3 May 1964 (14 civilians killed, 15 wounded, over 1,300 civilians killed in similar incidents in 1964); a derailed train at Thu Duc on 17 January 1965 (over 400 local officials killed and over 1,000 kidnapped in 1964).)
```

Very small caption text was read from the image; 'survietnamés' and 'se apresten' are printed as shown; one soldier count in the first portrait caption is [illegible]. Translation condenses the photo captions in a summary paragraph rather than word by word.

[← Kennedy, Years of Lightning poster (Japanese, Tokyo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kennedy-years-of-lightning-poster-tokyo-japanese-1965/) [News Briefs in Pictures poster, 65-272 (English poster distributed in Addis Ababa) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/news-briefs-in-pictures-65-272-english-addis-ababa-1965/)

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