--- title: El Correo Grafico poster, Alliance third anniversary (Spanish, San Jose) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/el-correo-grafico-317-alliance-3rd-anniversary-spanish-1965/ description: The August 1964 issue of a U.S. Embassy pictorial bulletin for Costa Rica, marking the third anniversary of the Alliance for Progress with ten captioned section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. El Correo Grafico poster, Alliance third anniversary [![El Correo Grafico poster, Alliance third anniversary, 1965 US poster: The August 1964 issue of a U.S. Embassy pictorial](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/el-correo-grafico-317-alliance-3rd-anniversary-spanish-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/el-correo-grafico-317-alliance-3rd-anniversary-spanish-1965.jpg) # El Correo Grafico poster, Alliance third anniversary (Spanish, San Jose) The August 1964 issue of a U.S. Embassy pictorial bulletin for Costa Rica, marking the third anniversary of the Alliance for Progress with ten captioned photographs: Ranger 7 lunar images, donated trucks and a weather radar, an AID university agreement, President Johnson with President Orlich, with Martin Luther King after the Civil Rights Act and with OAS foreign ministers who voted sanctions on Cuba. The tell is transfer: space, civil-rights and aid items are placed under one emblem so that each lends standing to the Alliance. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` AGOSTO 1964 17 de AGOSTO de 1964 3er. Aniversario de la ALIANZA PARA EL PROGRESO EL CORREO GRAFICO BOLETIN PICTORICO DEL SERVICIO DE INFORMACION DE LA EMBAJADA DE LOS E.E.U.U. DE NORTE AMERICA Los hombres de ciencia de los Estados Unidos han conquistado uno de los mayores triunfos de la era espacial, el lograr que el Ranger 7 llegara a la Luna y cumpliera su misión científica. En esta foto tomada a 750 kilómetros vemos un área de unos 124 kilómetros en un lado de la luna. Los cráteres más pequeños cuentan con un diámetro de 240 metros. El cráter grande en la esquina derecha de abajo se ha nombrado "Guericke". Se ven varios cráteres de diversos tamaños así como dos grandes cráteres cónicos de los cuales el más grande tiene un diámetro de 6 kilómetros. Dos camiones fueron obsequiados por el gobierno y pueblo de los Estados Unidos a la Dirección de Bienestar Social del Ministerio de Previsión Social de Costa Rica, a través de la Agencia para el Desarrollo Internacional (AID) bajo el programa de Alianza para el Progreso. Se utilizarán preferentemente en el traslado de familias de damnificados en las zonas afectadas por la actividad volcánica y por las inundaciones. La entrega fue hecha por el Embajador Sr. Raymond Telles, en compañía de funcionarios de la AID y del Cuerpo de Paz. El Ministro Lic. Carro Zúñiga firma los documentos al recibir las unidades donadas. El Rector Sr. Monge Alfaro firma, a nombre de la Universidad de Costa Rica, importante convenio con la Agencia para Desarrollo Internacional (AID) del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América, para financiar un plan de mejoramiento de la enseñanza que se imparte en el Hospital San Juan de Dios a los estudiantes avanzados de la Escuela de Medicina de esa Universidad, dentro del Programa de Alianza para el Progreso. Personeros de la Universidad y de la A.I.D. presenciaron la firma del convenio. Como parte del programa de cooperación entre Costa Rica y los Estados Unidos con motivo de la emergencia causada por el Volcán Irazú, ha sido instalada, en El Zapote, la primera unidad de radar meteorológico, facilitada por el Instituto Stanford de Investigación para señalar las zonas de lluvia en las cuencas de los ríos que más peligro ofrecen de provocar inundaciones. Esta unidad de radar está bajo el cuidado del Director del Servicio Meteorológico de Costa Rica Sr. Elliot Coen y de los expertos norteamericanos Richard D. Tarble y Walter R. Davis. Toda clase de honores y agasajos fueron dispensados al Presidente de Costa Rica don Francisco J. Orlich durante su visita oficial a los Estados Unidos, reforzándose así los tradicionales vínculos de cooperación y amistad entre ambas naciones. Aquí, ambos Presidentes aparecen en la Casa Blanca, en Washington, poco antes de la comida que el Presidente Lyndon B. Johnson y la señora de Johnson ofrecieron en honor del Presidente Orlich y la señora de Orlich. Grupo de Boy Scouts de Costa Rica, con el Embajador de los Estados Unidos Sr. Raymond Telles, poco antes de que ellos partieran para Norteamérica, atendiendo invitación de los "Boy Scouts de América" para participar en el 6º Jamboree celebrado en Pennsylvania del 17 al 23 de julio último. La delegación fue patrocinada por medio de becas del Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos. Tuvieron oportunidad de visitar la Feria Mundial en Nueva York y fueron a otras importantes ciudades de aquella nación. [text truncated here] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE GRAPHIC MAIL. August 1964. 17 August 1964, 3rd Anniversary of the ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS. Pictorial bulletin of the Information Service of the Embassy of the U.S.A. Captions, in order: US scientists achieved one of the great triumphs of the space age when Ranger 7 reached the Moon and completed its scientific mission (a photograph from 750 km shows an area about 124 km across; craters as small as 240 m; one named 'Guericke'; two large conical craters, the largest 6 km across). Two trucks donated by the government and people of the United States through AID under the Alliance for Progress to Costa Rica's social welfare directorate, for moving families affected by volcanic activity and floods; the minister signs the receipt. The University of Costa Rica rector signs an agreement with AID to finance improved teaching for advanced medical students at San Juan de Dios Hospital under the Alliance programme; university and AID staff witness the signing. Under the cooperation programme after the Irazu volcano emergency, the first meteorological radar unit, supplied by the Stanford Research Institute, is installed at El Zapote to mark rain zones in river basins at risk of flooding. Honours and hospitality for Costa Rican President Orlich on his official visit to the United States; both presidents at the White House before a dinner given by President and Mrs. Johnson. Costa Rican Boy Scouts with Ambassador Telles before leaving for the 6th Jamboree in Pennsylvania, 17 to 23 July, sponsored by State Department scholarships; they visited the New York World's Fair and other cities. President Johnson signs loan agreements with 13 Latin American nations under the Alliance for Progress, which marks its third anniversary on 17 August, the date the nations of the continent approved the programme proposed by President Kennedy; Under Secretary of State George Ball, Assistant Secretary Thomas C. Mann and the Alliance committee president are shown. President Johnson shakes the hand of Dr. Martin Luther King, 'leader of the people of colour', after signing the historic Civil Rights Act at the White House on 2 July 1964; the law is described as designed to help eliminate racial discrimination throughout the country; Johnson is quoted: 'Let us close the springs of racial poison, let us pray that our hearts may be right and understand; let us put aside our differences and work to make our nation whole.' President Johnson with the foreign ministers of the Latin American republics, who at an Organization of American States meeting approved diplomatic and commercial sanctions against Fidel Castro's Communist regime in Cuba; the resolution condemns the Castro regime for acts of aggression and intervention against Venezuela's territorial inviolability, sovereignty and political independence. A street sweeper donated by San Jose, California, to San Jose, Costa Rica, under the Sister Cities programme, bought with funds raised by 'Partners of the Alliance for Progress'; Ambassador Telles hands it to the Governor of San Jose. Printer: Imprenta Vargas. ``` Captions transcribed in reading order; some small print is hard to read at this resolution. The header block is untitled in English; the calendar page for August 1964 is not transcribed. Transcription truncated at the length limit: the last 5 printed blocks (captions and imprint) are not transcribed; translation covers the whole sheet in summary. 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