![Secretaría de Educación Pública [¿Por qué luchamos? quotation, Manuel Ávila Camacho], 1939 Mexico poster: Two muscular](../images/sep-por-que-luchamos-avila-camacho-mexico-1939.jpg)
Secretaría de Educación Pública [¿Por qué luchamos? quotation, Manuel Ávila Camacho]
Two muscular figures in the style of statues shake hands on a globe above a boxed quotation from President Manuel Ávila Camacho answering 'Why do we fight?' with 'for a world where man is the friend of man'. The tell is the presidential quotation as the warrant and a general aim ('friend of man') that names no specific cause or adversary.
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-871b.
Text on the object
¿POR QUE LUCHAMOS? Por un mundo donde el hombre sea el amigo del hombre. General Manuel Avila Camacho. PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA JULIO PRIETO SECRETARIA DE EDUCACION PUBLICA [imprint:] TALLERES GRAFICOS DE LA NACION [Translation: Why do we fight? For a world where man is the friend of man. General Manuel Avila Camacho, President of the Republic. Secretariat of Public Education.]
