Chicano Solidarity with Nicaragua

              Subtitled "La Unión del Movimiento Chicano con la Revolución Nicaraguense" (The Union of the Chicano Movement with the Nicaraguan Revolution). This mural was painted by Chicano artists with help from local muralists. Located in Plaza España in Parque de las Madres (Mothers' Park), it features a map of Mexico and Central America. Henry Houser notes: "there is a man's shirt (Spanish ) "Unity is strength". TV screen: Sandino present in the United States, with South Western states in United States checked and darkened. Agrarian workers bending over corn, heart burning as a torch. In helicopter lights children running, suffering, men captured, barbed wire. There are Eagles, Aztec figures, chieftains, women with armed men silhouettes. Women with the book "Diosa y Hembra" (God and Female) by Martha Colero. There are young women with pens, a young man with a paint brush and a young boy in a cap at a desk writing. There are also books: "450 anos del pueblos chicanos" (450 years of Chicano pueblos) by Jaime Weelock; "Raíces Indígenas" (Indigenous Roots) and "Rubén Darío". There are strong indigenous themes, men working hard, agrarian themes, like the harvesting of crops. Technology is represented by TV screen with image of Sandino and also helicopter lighting up the night and bringing suffering. Contrasts with Aztec chieftains and a female goddess and on the right arts and education with a woman with arms upraised to form a V. There is also an inscription (Spanish) to the right of the mural, which says: "Our grandfathers ordained that the sun of our culture shine with the greater force and realize its grand universal destiny. The time has come, we are all one single America struggling shoulder to shoulder, love to love, we go towards the sun of liberty, the Chicano and Nicaraguans united for peace. Delegation Chicano 1986 Aztlan."