In Presencia de América Latina, how is the Fraternity of the Description and interpretation elucidated?
On the left panel of the mural there is a nopal, which merges with the vines of a copihue (the national tree and flower of Mexico and Chile, respectively). The nopal is pierced by daggers, symbolizing the historic mistreatment of Latin Americans, and its roots entwine cadaverous warriors, who nourish the nopal and give it life.All along the top of the mural, the flags of the different Latin American nations wave in sequence. The sequence begins at the right with the flag of Chile and a condor, the national bird, and ends with the flag of Mexico next to an eagle and a serpent, important national symbols of Mexico. The flags are organized from right to left, following the geographical placement of the nations from south to north. Thus the sequence begins with Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia of South America; continues with Haiti, Cuba, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala of Central America and the Caribbean; and ends with Mexico of North America. The only peoples excluded are those who are not sovereign, that is, the French colonies of Clipperton Island, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, and Saint Martin—as well as the United States territory of Puerto Rico.
The Andes appears in the distant background, and crowning the entire mural are the verses of the Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda:…There is no beauty like the beauty of America spread out in its hells / in its mountains of rock and power, in its atavistic and eternal rivers…(…Y no hay belleza como esta belleza de América extendida en sus infiernos / en sus cerros de piedra y poderío, en sus ríos atávicos y eternos…)
Latin American Haiti Ecuador flag of Mexico Bolivia South America Saint Martin Pablo Neruda Guadeloupe Caribbean Paraguay Panama copihue right peoples nopal serpent Uruguay Chile Puerto Rico Peru Andes Saint Barthélemy eagle Argentina Latin America French Guiana Clipperton Island mural Cuba Martinique United States territory Honduras Central America Brazil Costa Rica sovereign Nicaragua Venezuela Guatemala left condor Colombia North America flag of Chile