"Soldado: en el plebiscito, por la patria vota NO" leaflet (1988)

A text-only half sheet in brown ink addresses one reader by rank ('SOLDADO:') and ties the ballot to the nation: 'en el plebiscito, por la patria, VOTA NO'. The tell is the single abstract value, patria, offered as the reason with no fact or argument on the front, and the personal address that casts the vote as a duty of the uniform.

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
Themes: Elections and party politics, War and the military
Event: 1988 Chilean Plebiscite
Techniques: Glittering generalities
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

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

PF0005 [handwritten catalogue number, top right]

SOLDADO:

EN EL PLEBISCITO, POR LA PATRIA

VOTA NO

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

SOLDIER:

IN THE PLEBISCITE, FOR THE HOMELAND

VOTE NO

Front of the sheet only. The reverse, which the catalogue records as a separate text, is not in the hosted image.

"Soldado: en el plebiscito, por la patria vota NO" leaflet (1988)

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