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title: Defendemos la Libertad y Luchamos por un Mundo Mejor
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mexico-defendemos-la-libertad-mundo-mejor-1939/
description: Four drawn portraits of men, three in nineteenth-century dress and one in modern dress, are set in a ribbon reading 'Defendemos la Libertad y luchamos por
section: Collection
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[![Defendemos la Libertad y Luchamos por un Mundo Mejor, 1939 Mexico poster: Four drawn portraits of men, three](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mexico-defendemos-la-libertad-mundo-mejor-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mexico-defendemos-la-libertad-mundo-mejor-1939.jpg)

# Defendemos la Libertad y Luchamos por un Mundo Mejor

Four drawn portraits of men, three in nineteenth-century dress and one in modern dress, are set in a ribbon reading 'Defendemos la Libertad y luchamos por un mundo mejor' over the line 'Propaganda de la Secretaría de Educación Pública'. The tell is the row of historical figures lending their standing to the present cause (transfer), and the slogan words 'libertad' and 'mundo mejor' with no stated measure (glittering-generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Defendemos la Libertad
y luchamos por un mundo mejor

PROPAGANDA DE LA SECRETARIA DE EDUCACION PUBLICA

[imprint:] TALLERES GRAFICOS DE LA NACION

[Translation: We defend freedom and fight for a better world. Propaganda of the Ministry of Public Education.]
```

[← Consejo Obrero Nacional](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mexico-consejo-obrero-nacional-1939/) [El Grito de Guerra →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mexico-el-grito-de-guerra-1939/)

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