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
- Made by
- Caras y Caretas (Buenos Aires illustrated weekly); cartoonist Manuel Mayol
- Region
- Latin America
- Country
- Argentina
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roca Government
- Leader
- Julio Argentino Roca
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Argentina Chile Boundary Dispute
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from Caras y Caretas), 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
[on the cheese:] TACNA-ARICA [on the ground, lower left:] ARGENTINA [signature, lower left:] Mayol
[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.
