"El No... otra vez la Unidad Popular" leaflet: queues, empty shelves and ration cards (1988)
A two-colour sheet in red hand lettering sets four captions around three press photographs of shop windows and long queues and a cut-out of two family ration cards (JAP, 1972). The tell is the equation 'El No... otra vez la Unidad Popular': a No vote is tied to the shortages, black market and rationing of 1972-73 by pictures alone, with no figures and nothing from any other period.
- Date
- 1988
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Sponsor not named on the leaflet (catalogued by Memoria Chilena as a 1988 plebiscite leaflet, producer not identified)
- Region
- Latin America
- Country
- Chile
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Pinochet Regime
- Leader
- Augusto Pinochet
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Card stackingFear appeal
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Memoria Chilena (Biblioteca Nacional de Chile), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Free reuse per holder (Memoria Chilena: 'Patrimonio cultural comun')
Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (donation of Rafael Karque)
Text on the object
EL NO... OTRA VEZ LA UNIDAD POPULAR EL NO... ESCASEZ - COLAS DESABASTECIMIENTO MERCADO NEGRO EL NO... TARJETAS PARA COMER (JAP) EL NO... ES RETROCEDER [on the ration cards:] IDENTIFICACION FAMILIAR / JUNTA DE ABASTECIMIENTOS Y CONTROL DE PRECIOS N.o 14 / LA CISTERNA [remaining card text illegible]
THE NO... THE UNIDAD POPULAR ALL OVER AGAIN THE NO... SHORTAGE - QUEUES SUPPLY BREAKDOWN BLACK MARKET THE NO... RATION CARDS (JAP) THE NO... MEANS GOING BACKWARDS [on the ration cards:] FAMILY IDENTIFICATION / SUPPLY AND PRICE CONTROL BOARD NO. 14 / LA CISTERNA [remaining card text illegible]
Hand-lettered captions read from the committed image. The photographs carry only shop-window signs that are too small to read; the cards are partly handwritten and partly illegible.
