(literally: "Rifle, machine gun, the people won't be silenced")
For a long time I thought of this popular Latin American marching slogan as a call to arms... now I think it could just as easily be addressing the the rifle and the machine gun, exclaiming that the people will not be silenced by the thundering violence aimed at them.
The below image has long fascinated me, ever since I saw it in La Paz, on a fake DVD of "Fusil, metralla el pueblo no se calla", the best documentary on the Gas Wars I've yet seen (check it out online). The original video came out a couple of months after the Gas Wars calmed down and Goni fled. This is surely a pirate copy. The layout and words are themselves an excellent record of popular sentiment. The miner with coca in his cheek raising fist at a devilishly white Goni... the gruesome b-film typography evoking the massacre... the stencil-like subtitle at the bottom "The failure of the k'aras (the aymara word for whites)"... the excerpt from a local publication describing current events during the gas wars instead of a description of the contents of the film...
