The El Salvador Farmer's Revolt had its 50th anniversary on January 22nd 1982 and this rare, mint condition and exquisitely designed offset litho poster commemorates it.

In the 1920’s and 1930’s, coffee exports alone totaled 90% of all of El Salvador's exports.  During economic downturns, and the global depression of the 1930’s pushed El Salvador to the brink. With coffee prices dropping to one-third of previous levels, coffee producers cut wages by half while others dismissed their workers altogether. Coffee rotted in the fields, while rural unemployment skyrocketed. Rural discontent turned to anger. For three days in January 1932, tens of thousands of peasants organized an open insurrection in western El Salvador. Their actions were met by bullets.

Thirty thousand peasants were killed in La Matanza, El Salvador’s worst massacre. As historian Thomas Anderson suggests, La Matanza is a way of understanding “the whole political labyrinth of El Salvador.” The combination of the strong grip of a coffee plantation class and a desperate rural proletariat proved to be as volatile in the 1970’s and 1980’s as it was fifty years earlier.

 So as you may sipping a cup of java while you are reading about this "find"  and its history, do consider placing a bid.

Dimensions: 15.25" x 22.75"

Thanks to the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) who donated a series of great posters  to our auction, this piece of rare visual history can be part of your own collection. SWOP is a statewide multi-racial, multi-issue, community based membership organization. Visit them through www.facebook.com/swopista or through www.abqpeaceandjustice.org to find out more information.