In English or Spanish...It Means What it Says!
A large US Navy ship ('U.S.N.') looms over a bearded man in fatigues, labelled 'Castro' on his rifle, who looks up startled; a sign on the ship reads 'Hands Off! No Tocar! D.D.E.' and its anchor chain drops into water marked 'Guantanamo'. The tell is fear-appeal through scale: naval force set against a small figure under a bilingual warning.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- November 3, 1960
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cuban Revolution
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743286 (NAID 5743286).
Text on the object
U.S.N. HANDS OFF! NO TOCAR! D.D.E. CASTRO GUANTANAMO JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
'No tocar' = 'Do not touch'.
