Content note: US wartime poster in Spanish with a bleeding hand and a combined Japanese and Nazi emblem as threat symbols. This object is shown as it was published. Why

No dejemos al Eje meter la garra en las Américas [Let us not let the Axis put its claw into the Americas]

A giant pale clawing hand, its cuff marked with a rising-sun and swastika armband, reaches over a blue globe toward a rifle bayonet that has drawn a drop of blood from its palm. The tell is the threat image: the Axis is shown as a physical menace to the Americas, with the bayonet as the only defence offered.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Fear appeal

Date: 1941
Period: Second World War
Made by: Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Washington); artist Gaydos
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Roosevelt Administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Theme: War and the military
Event: World War II
Regime: Roosevelt administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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: Public domain (U.S. government work)
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; artist Gaydos. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PF-844 (NAID 44268187).

Text on the object

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

no dejemos al eje
meter la garra
EN LAS AMERICAS

Publicado por El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, Washington, E.U.A.
[signature:] Gaydos

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

let us not let the Axis
put its claw
INTO THE AMERICAS

Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, U.S.A.
[signature:] Gaydos