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title: Libres de Miseria [Free from Want]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-libres-de-miseria-ciaa-1942/
description: A pale hand cradles a house, a family and a cow; a grey hand holds a ruined frame and an animal skull, and a chain from it ends in a swastika ball.
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# Libres de Miseria [Free from Want]

A pale hand cradles a house, a family and a cow; a grey hand holds a ruined frame and an animal skull, and a chain from it ends in a swastika ball. The contrast pictures want under Axis rule against plenty for the Allies (fear-appeal), and the slogan names the Four Freedoms as the aim (glittering-generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Alexey Brodovitch 1942

libres
de miseria

UNA DE LAS CUATRO LIBERTADES
POR LAS QUE LUCHAN LOS ALIADOS

Publicado por El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, Washington, E. U. A.
```

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

```
Alexey Brodovitch 1942

free
from want

ONE OF THE FOUR FREEDOMS
FOR WHICH THE ALLIES ARE FIGHTING

Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, U.S.A.
```

[← 'Libertad de Palabra' \[Freedom of Speech\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-libertad-de-palabra-brodovitch-1942/) [A Guerra Ilustrada: Notícias das Américas, no. 2 \[The War Illustrated: News of the Americas\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-a-guerra-ilustrada-2-portuguese-1942/)

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