13.75x19.5" paper poster w/an early example of the use of Alberto Korda's famous cropped photograph of Che Guevara. Designer Elena Serrano has used pop art stylings to merge the legend w/the Latin America that the Cuban leaders believed would eventually succumb to similar revolutions. In Cuba, Oct. 8th is the Day of the Heroic Guerrilla and commemorates the revolutionary life of Guevara, who was executed by the CIA on Oct. 9, 1967. Guevara had only been dead a year and already he was becoming an icon, a symbol of the revolution and deified as the romantic freedom fighter. Poster was issued by OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, a Cuban political movement w/the stated purpose of fighting globalization, imperialism, neoliberalism and defending human rights. OSPAAAL was founded in Havana, Cuba in Jan., 1966. One of the main purposes of the organisation is to promote the causes of socialism and communism in the Third World. One vertical crease and two lt. horizontal fold lines at left. VF w/a NM display. Poster is vibrant, dramatic, colourful and celebratory. From the Marshall Levin Collection and comes with Hake's COA.