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The
Southern California Chicano brigade painted this mural
called, Chicano Solidarity with Nicaragua.
It shows common ancestors, Chicana women, and a Nicaraguan girl depicted
against the background of a map of southern Mexico and Central America.
Also, notice the theme of literacy. A defiant figure holds a book
that reads "Dios y Hembra" (God and Female). The boy to
the right writes with books marked "Pueblo Chicano,""Jaime
W[h]eelock Raices Indigenas" (Indigenous Roots [of the Anticolonialist
Struggle in Nicaragua, 1980]).
The inscription to the right (not shown in image)
reads, "Our forefathers ordained that the sun
of our culture shine with greater force and realize
its grand universal destiny. The time has come, we
are alone single America struggling shoulder to shoulder,
love to love, we will move toward the sun of liberty.
The Chicano and Nicaraguan peoples united for peace."
Mural executed July 1986
Managua, Parque de las Madres
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