![Secretaría de Educación Pública [Panamericanismo quotation, Manuel Ávila Camacho], 1939 Mexico poster: Rows of national flags](../images/sep-panamericanismo-avila-camacho-mexico-1939.jpg)
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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Secretaría de Educación Pública (Mexico), printed by Talleres Gráficos de la Nación; artist Julio Prieto
- Region
- Latin America
- Country
- Mexico
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Avila Camacho Government
- Leader
- Manuel Avila Camacho
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; Mexican government poster, hosted by owner decision
Secretaría de Educación Pública (Mexico); artist Julio Prieto, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-871a.
Text on the object
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.]
