Mocking and Threatening U.S. Embassy

Mocking and Threatening U.S. Embassy

Photograph

Andrew St. George

Maker
American, b. Hungary, 1923–2001

Mocking and Threatening U.S. Embassy

Here the Issues of Our Hemisphere Meet


1961
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0010
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso TC: (Montevideo) 1) MOCKING AND THREATENING U.S. EMBASSY, Fidelista \ rioters surge against a cordon of constabulary and cavalry \ (background) shielding main gate of U.S. diplomatic head- \ quarters in down town Montevideo, whila they give stiff-arm \ Fascist salute in derisive protest against what Castro and \ Communists now invariably identify as the "Fascist Kennedy \ Government." Such demonstrations occur frquently. \ Credit: Andrew St. George © 1961,1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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