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title: '"No vamos a aceptar... que la bandera Roja y Negra claudique": billboard, León, Nicaragua'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fsln-red-and-black-flag-negotiation-billboard-leon-1988/
description: A painted street billboard in León shows a camouflaged fighter beside the red-and-black flag crossed with a blue-and-white one, under the words 'We will…
section: Collection
---

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[!["No vamos a aceptar... que la bandera Roja y Negra claudique": billboard, León, Nicaragua](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fsln-red-and-black-flag-negotiation-billboard-leon-1988.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fsln-red-and-black-flag-negotiation-billboard-leon-1988.jpg)

# "No vamos a aceptar... que la bandera Roja y Negra claudique": billboard, León, Nicaragua

A painted street billboard in León shows a camouflaged fighter beside the red-and-black flag crossed with a blue-and-white one, under the words 'We will not accept at any negotiating table that the Red and Black flag yield'. The flag stands in for the whole cause, so giving ground in talks is framed as the flag yielding, and the crossed flags and fighter lend the message the weight of the nation's symbols.

## Text on the object

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

```
"No vamos a aceptar en
ninguna mesa de negocia-
ciones que la bandera Roja
y Negra claudique."
```

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

```
"We are not going to accept at any negotiating table that the Red and Black flag yield."
```

Read from the committed image; the line breaks and hyphenation follow the painted lettering. The Commons description gives the same text with a spelling slip ('niguna') that the billboard itself does not have.

[← Дым, в котором мы живём (The Smoke in Which We Live)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dym-v-kotorom-my-zhivyom-1988/) [Stage slogan at the MSZMP national conference, Budapest: "A párt vezetésével, \[de\]mokrácia és a reformok útján a szocializmusért!" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungary-mszmp-national-conference-slogan-1988/)

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