David Alfaro Siqueiros in Prison
Arturo García Bustos Mexican
Publisher Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City Mexican
A militant social activist and committed Communist, David Alfaro Siqueiros was imprisoned at different times during his life. In 1960, he was arrested and incarcerated in Mexico City’s Lecumberri prison for openly criticizing the president and for leading protests against the arrests of striking workers and teachers (charges that were known to be false). In this print, protruding through the bars, the artist’s right hand points to a scene of a rich man wearing a top hat standing over a worker next to a bag inscribed "sulfur lead and zinc." This is a reference to the export of the country’s valuable mineral resources, the rewards of which did not benefit the Mexican miners who labored to extract it.
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