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title: ¡Mexicanos! Las dictaduras han acabado por agredirnos (México por la Libertad)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mexico-mexicanos-las-dictaduras-morales-1939/
description: A man in charro dress pulls a bell rope in front of a large Mexican flag; the text says that 'the dictatorships' have ended by attacking Mexico and that
section: Collection
---

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[![¡Mexicanos! Las dictaduras han acabado por agredirnos, 1939 Mexico poster: A man in charro dress pulls a bell rope in front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mexico-mexicanos-las-dictaduras-morales-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mexico-mexicanos-las-dictaduras-morales-1939.jpg)

# ¡Mexicanos! Las dictaduras han acabado por agredirnos (México por la Libertad)

A man in charro dress pulls a bell rope in front of a large Mexican flag; the text says that 'the dictatorships' have ended by attacking Mexico and that a free people has one resort, to declare a state of war. The tell is the label 'las dictaduras' for the opponents and the virtue words 'pueblo libre', 'ideal', 'derecho' and 'libertad' for Mexico's side.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
¡MEXICANOS!
LAS DICTADURAS han acabado por agredirnos.
UN PUEBLO LIBRE y deseoso de mantener sin mancha su ejecutoria cívica, no tiene más que un recurso: el de aceptar valientemente las realidades y DECLARAR EL ESTADO DE GUERRA.
NUESTRAS ARMAS:
EL IDEAL, EL DERECHO Y EL AMOR A LA LIBERTAD
MEXICO POR LA LIBERTAD

[imprint:] COOPERACION DE LA CIA. LITOGRAFICA "LA ENSEÑANZA OBJETIVA", S. A.
VICENE J. MORALES
[Translation: Mexicans! The dictatorships have ended by attacking us. A free people, wishing to keep its civic record unstained, has only one recourse: to accept the realities bravely and declare a state of war. Our weapons: the ideal, the law and the love of freedom. Mexico for freedom.]
```

[← Mas Esfuerzo Produccion (La Patria lo Pide)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mexico-mas-esfuerzo-produccion-1939/) [México por la Libertad: Mujer Mexicana, ¡La Patria te Solicita! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mexico-mexico-por-la-libertad-mujer-mexicana-1939/)

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