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Landing: Enrique Chagoya's Their Freedom of Expression...The Recovery of Their Economy
June 3, 2023
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Dec 1,2023
In 1984, as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, Enrique Chagoya was active in the national movement known as the Artists Call Against Intervention in Central America. All affiliated artists expressed an "outrage over government policies, propaganda, and murder" in Central America.
Their Freedom of Expression...The Recovery of Their Economy is one of Chagoya's satirical "oversized cartoons" produced in response to the Ronald Reagan administration's political intervention in Central America during the 1980s. Reagan's face-along with the face of Henry Kissinger, who served as chairman of the Commission on Central America during Reagan's administration-adorns the body of Mickey Mouse, a symbol of America's cultural imperialism. Chagoya shows Reagan and Kissinger using human blood to spread their political ideology.
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