Three "Liberators"
Photograph
Three "Liberators"
Montevideo: Here the Issues of Our Hemisphere Meet
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 3/8 in. (15.8 × 23.8 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0011
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso TC: (Montevideo) 7/61 2) THREE "LIBERATORS" -- Bolivar, Castro and \ Lumumba - look down on traffic in downtown Montevideo. This \ seemingly incongruous trinity demonstrates the attempt by the \ Uruguayan Socialist Party to identify Castro with the 19th \ Century Latin revolt and 20th century African revolt against \ colonialism. One of the paradoxes confronting U.S. policy is \ that while Castro's popularity is generally linked to rural \ poverty, the real strength of Fidelismo lies in urban unrest. \ Sociologists and political scientists agree that urban, \ educated, middle-class, democratically-governed population \ groups are exposed to incomparably more Fidelismo [underlined] than, for \ example, an illiterate Venezuelan Indian. \ Credit: Andrew St. George © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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