After Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, his government took control of all magazines, newspapers, and broadcasting facilities, and installed a propaganda unit to telegraph its revolutionary message across the globe. Bold posters like this one, featuring a soldier with weapon raised against enemies of the regime and a call for “Alertness, Preparedness, and Vigilance” played a key role in this global propaganda machine; such motifs and slogans were adapted by artists around the world as general symbols of working-class revolt. Little is known about the artist Zagroniz but he was still making propaganda posters of this kind in 1999.