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title: Secretaría de Educación Pública [Panamericanismo quotation, Manuel Ávila Camacho]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sep-panamericanismo-avila-camacho-mexico-1939/
description: Rows of national flags and three painted faces (a light-skinned profile, an Indigenous-featured woman and a dark-skinned child) sit under a boxed quotation
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# Secretaría de Educación Pública [Panamericanismo quotation, Manuel Ávila Camacho]

Rows of national flags and three painted faces (a light-skinned profile, an Indigenous-featured woman and a dark-skinned child) sit under a boxed quotation from President Manuel Ávila Camacho calling Pan-Americanism a universal symbol of continental solidarity, peace based on justice and democracy. The tell is the presidential quotation offered as the warrant and the virtue words (peace, justice, democracy) with no named action.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
El Panamericanismo es un símbolo universal, pues representa la solidaridad continental de nuestros países y la defensa de elevados principios, tales como la paz basada en la justicia, el respeto a la soberanía de los pueblos y la reafirmación de la democracia.
General Manuel Avila Camacho,
PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA

JULIO PRIETO
SECRETARIA DE EDUCACION PUBLICA
[imprint:] TALLERES GRAFICOS DE LA NACION

[Translation: Pan-Americanism is a universal symbol, for it represents the continental solidarity of our countries and the defence of lofty principles, such as peace based on justice, respect for the sovereignty of peoples and the reaffirmation of democracy. General Manuel Avila Camacho, President of the Republic. Secretariat of Public Education.]
```

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