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title: Propaganda Pamphlets poster, No. 66 (Quechua, USIS Lima)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/propaganda-pamphlets-poster-66-quechua-peru-1958/
description: A Quechua-language poster contrasting two kinds of 'assistance'. At top left is a stack of pamphlets marked with a star.
section: Collection
---

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[![Propaganda Pamphlets poster, No. 66, 1958 US poster: A Quechua-language poster contrasting two kinds of 'assistance'. At top](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/propaganda-pamphlets-poster-66-quechua-peru-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/propaganda-pamphlets-poster-66-quechua-peru-1958.jpg)

# Propaganda Pamphlets poster, No. 66 (Quechua, USIS Lima)

A Quechua-language poster contrasting two kinds of 'assistance'. At top left is a stack of pamphlets marked with a star, captioned as Communist assistance; at top right are crates and sacks of fat, barley and wheat, captioned as United States assistance. Below, a highland man says that he has to eat and that propaganda does not fill his stomach. The tell is plain folks and card-stacking: a villager's voice carries a two-item comparison.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
REQSICHINAPAQ
QELQAKUNA

Comunistaq yanapay nisqan

PERU
LLAQTANCHISPAQ
WIRA
CEBADA
TRIGO
TRIGO
SEMILLA
SEMILLA

Estados Unidospa yanapaynin

MIKHUWAYMI KAWSANAYPAQ
MANAN PROPAGANDAKUNA
WIKSAYTA HUNT'ACHINKUCHU

CH'AKIYPA MUCHUCHISQAN RUNAKUNAPAQ PERU-ESTADOS UNIDOSPA
YANAPAYNIN PROGRAMA COOPERATIVO, KUSKA RURANA, NISQA

IMP. "EL CONDOR" AMARGURA 983 LIMA-PERU
```

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

```
[On the pamphlets:] Writings for publicity. / What the Communist calls assistance. / [On the crates:] For our people of Peru; fat, barley, wheat, wheat, seed, seed. / The United States' assistance. / [Speech balloon:] I have to eat to live; propaganda does not fill the stomach. / The Peru-United States cooperative aid program for the people stricken by drought, 'working together'.
```

Pencil annotations in English on the sheet (not printed): 'Propaganda Pamphlets'; 'Communist Assistance'; 'United States Assistance'; 'I have to eat. Propaganda does not fill my stomach'; 'Peruvian-United States Program to Aid Victims of the Drought'. Quechua translation is approximate.

[← Muchas vidas se salvaron, Peru drought aid poster (Spanish poster distributed in Lima)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/muchas-vidas-se-salvaron-peru-drought-aid-spanish-1958/) [They Did Not Forget Us poster, No. 65 (Quechua, USIS Lima) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/they-did-not-forget-us-poster-65-quechua-peru-1958/)

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