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künstler: Orlando Letelier Brigade

titel: «Territorio victorioso sobre el analfabetismo»: Dove. Star. Face. Figures raising machete, breaking chain, working at a machine, practicing writing. Woman with raised pencil, hammer, gun. Figure in red and black with torch floating over mountaintops. Hand releasing doves colored like Nicaraguan and Chilean flags. Mountains with Nicaraguan and FSLN flags

jahr: 1980

adresse: lndustria Nacional de Clavos y Alambre de Puas Silvio Renazco INCA (courtyard), Masaya, Nicaragua

+: 2,5 x 30 m. Four figures, painted by factory workers before the Chileans arrived, are in a local primitivist style; the rest of the mural is painted in the characteristic Chilean manner. Ordered destroyed by new government (of 1990). Saved by workers and twice restored by them