"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.
- Date
- March 4, 1988
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Sponsor not stated on the billboard; the red-and-black flag is the FSLN's (Sandinista National Liberation Front)
- Region
- Latin America
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Sandinista Government
- Leader
- Daniel Ortega
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Identity fusionTransfer
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (photograph by Txo, March 1988), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (photographer's own release, Commons PD-self; billboard artwork not separately licensed)
Txo (Wikimedia Commons), public-domain dedication on the file page
Text on the object
"No vamos a aceptar en ninguna mesa de negocia- ciones que la bandera Roja y Negra claudique."
"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.
