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title: Chile como el cuervo de la fábula (Chile as the Raven of the Fable)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chile-como-el-cuervo-de-la-fabula-caras-y-caretas-1901/
description: A large bird of prey perches on a rock above a stretch of ground lettered 'Argentina', a cheese-shaped slab in its beak marked 'Tacna Arica'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Chile como el cuervo de la fábula (Chile as the Raven of the Fable)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chile-como-el-cuervo-de-la-fabula-caras-y-caretas-1901.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chile-como-el-cuervo-de-la-fabula-caras-y-caretas-1901.jpg)

# Chile como el cuervo de la fábula (Chile as the Raven of the Fable)

A large bird of prey perches on a rock above a stretch of ground lettered 'Argentina', a cheese-shaped slab in its beak marked 'Tacna Arica'. The tells are the predatory bird standing for Chile and the label on the prize: in a border quarrel with Argentina, the cover casts Chile as a raptor holding what it took from Peru.

- **Date:** 1901
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** Caras y Caretas (Buenos Aires illustrated weekly); cartoonist Manuel Mayol
- **Region:** [Latin America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=latin-america)
- **Country:** [Argentina](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=argentina)
- **Medium:** [Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=cartoon)
- **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media)
- **Regime:** [Roca Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=roca-government)
- **Leader:** [Julio Argentino Roca](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=julio-argentino-roca)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism)
- **Event:** [Argentina Chile Boundary Dispute](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=argentina-chile-boundary-dispute)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from Caras y Caretas)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chile_como_el_cuervo_de_la_f%C3%A1bula.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published 1901, before 1931; author d. 1929; PD-old per Wikimedia Commons) Manuel Mayol, Caras y Caretas (Buenos Aires), 1901, via Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

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

```
[on the cheese:] TACNA-ARICA
[on the ground, lower left:] ARGENTINA
[signature, lower left:] Mayol
```

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

```
[on the cheese:] TACNA-ARICA
[on the ground, lower left:] ARGENTINA
[signature, lower left:] Mayol
```

The cheese lettering reads 'TACNA ARICA' with a possible hyphen; the crop carries no printed title.

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