Fighting for Freedom Vietnam poster, 422b (Spanish-language poster distributed in Mexico and Buenos Aires)
A seven-photograph Spanish poster headed 'Luchando por la libertad' (Fighting for freedom). It shows a soldier carrying a burned child, which it attributes to a Communist bomb in Saigon, with peasants digging a moat, a water pump, a captured shell with Chinese markings, Australian airmen, women militia and a list of 14 helping nations. The tell is name-calling and card-stacking: the text labels one side 'terrorist guerrillas' and supplies evidence of outside supply for that side only.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- November 6, 1964
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, November 6, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949364, 306-PPB-422b).
Text on the object
LUCHANDO POR LA LIBERTAD... Las naciones del Mundo libre ayudan a Vietnam del Sur a combatir a los guerrilleros terroristas que, dirigidos por Vietnam del Norte y pertrechados principalmente por China Comunista, devastan el país. Esta campaña sistemática de matanzas viola el Acuerdo de Ginebra de 1954, firmado por Vietnam del Norte, que disponía la pacífica partición del país. El pueblo survietnamita está luchando por la paz y por la oportunidad de formar una nación libre y democrática. Estos campesinos están dando los últimos toques a una posición defensiva contra los ataques de los guerrilleros comunistas. El foso, lleno de agua, será revestido con agudas estacas de bambú. Un niño víctima de una bomba terrorista arrojada por los comunistas en una concurrida calle de Saigón, capital de Vietnam del Sur. Un campesino survietnamita paladea el agua pura que brota de una bomba instalada por técnicos norteamericanos. Aparte de los Estados Unidos, las otras 14 naciones del Mundo Libre que ayudan a Vietnam del Sur son las siguientes: Australia, Canadá, China Libre, Francia, Alemania Occidental, Italia, Japón, Corea del Sur Libre, Malasia, Nueva Zelandia, Filipinas, Suiza, Tailandia y Gran Bretaña. También han prometido su ayuda otras diez naciones del Mundo Libre. Las marcas que aparecen en este proyectil capturado de las guerrillas que operan en Vietnam del Sur, muestran claramente que el mismo procede de China Comunista. Grandes cantidades de armas y municiones de fabricación chino-comunista en poder de las guerrillas terroristas han sido capturadas. Australia figura entre las 15 naciones del Mundo Libre que ayudan a Vietnam del Sur. Este grupo está formado por pilotos y personal de mantenimiento destinados a los aviones suministrados por Australia. Estas milicianas survietnamitas se han alistado voluntariamente para ayudar en la defensa de su patria contra la guerra terrorista desencadenada por los caudillos comunistas de Vietnam del Norte.
FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM... The nations of the Free World are helping South Vietnam to combat the terrorist guerrillas who, directed by North Vietnam and supplied mainly by Communist China, are devastating the country. This systematic campaign of killings violates the Geneva Agreement of 1954, signed by North Vietnam, which provided for the peaceful partition of the country. The South Vietnamese people are fighting for peace and for the opportunity to form a free and democratic nation. These peasants are putting the finishing touches on a defensive position against the attacks of the Communist guerrillas. The moat, filled with water, will be lined with sharp bamboo stakes. A child, victim of a terrorist bomb thrown by the Communists on a busy street in Saigon, capital of South Vietnam. A South Vietnamese peasant savours the pure water that gushes from a pump installed by American technicians. Apart from the United States, the other 14 nations of the Free World that help South Vietnam are the following: Australia, Canada, Free China, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, Free South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Switzerland, Thailand and Great Britain. Ten other nations of the Free World have also promised their help. The markings on this projectile captured from the guerrillas operating in South Vietnam show clearly that it comes from Communist China. Large quantities of Chinese-Communist-made arms and munitions in the hands of the terrorist guerrillas have been captured. Australia is among the 15 nations of the Free World that help South Vietnam. This group is made up of pilots and maintenance personnel assigned to the aircraft supplied by Australia. These South Vietnamese women militia members have volunteered to help in the defence of their homeland against the terrorist war unleashed by the Communist leaders of North Vietnam.
No imprint or credit line is printed on the sheet. Chinese characters on the shell photograph are not transcribed.
