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Anti-USA Posters

"Support"

Henryk Berg

This poster responds to the alliance between U.S. multinational corporations and the CIA, which gave the CIA the opportunity to manipulate Chilean politics. The featured corporation is the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, which in 1970 owned 70% of Chitelco, the Compania de Telefonos de Chile, (Telephone Company of Chile) or about $153 million.

On Sept. 13, 1970, Nixon authorized "track two" intervention (an upgrade from track one, which permitted milder involvement) in Chile, paving the way for the CIA to intervene in the economic and political affairs of Chile in whatever way they deemed necessary. Because of ITT's economic position in Chile, the CIA used the company to filter money to Allende opposition campaigns, including large sums of money for the right-wing opposition newspaper, El Mercurio . John McCone, CIA director in 1973, was also an ITT board member.

The poster above shows the United States, backed and disguised by the ITT, knifing Santiago, Chile's capital. Carved into the knife handle is "CIA."

"Class struggle"

Cesar Olhagaray (1983)

This poster is filled with similar images. At the bottom, a tank labeled ITT leads the coup against the Popular Unity government. General Augusto Pinochet fights with a horse shaped like a guitar, Victor Jara's. There are also images of the Statue of Liberty, representations of Uncle Sam, U.S. business interests symbolized by Coke, and other images shown above Pinochet, driving him to kill Chilean dissidents.