OSPAAAL (cover designer: Rafael Enríquez), "Año internacional de la paz / International year of peace / Année internationale de la paix," Tricontinental magazine, No. 104, March-April 1986. Offset print.

Tricontinental No. 104 commemorates the United Nations-proclaimed International Year of Peace in 1986, presenting OSPAAAL's vision of peace through disarmament, abolition of debt, decolonization, détente, and development. Cover designer Rafael Enríquez creates a powerful anti-war composition showing a flock of white peace doves carrying multicolored flags representing nations across the three continents, flying against a warm gradient background of coral, orange, and yellow tones. Dark angular shapes—suggesting military aircraft or weapons—explode and fragment in the upper right corner, symbolizing the destruction of war machinery. The doves appear to emerge triumphantly from this violence, embodying hope for international solidarity and peaceful coexistence.

The editorial "Al Lector" (To the Reader) explains that this second edition of 1986 presents as its central theme "International Year of Peace, for disarmament, the abolition of debt, decolonization, détente and development," featuring an extensive analysis by René Anillo Capote, OSPAAAL's General Secretary, addressing the most serious and pressing economic, political, and social problems affecting the peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The issue examines criteria of Non-Governmental Organizations regarding the international situation and the disturbing problem of the nuclear arms race, calling for a climate that prevents and impedes the holocaust.

The table of contents reveals comprehensive coverage across regions. Under "America Latina y el Caribe," Eusebio Leal contributes "Máximo Gómez: el hombre que enseñó a pelear a los cubanos" (Máximo Gómez: the man who taught Cubans to fight), profiling the Dominican patriot who became General in Chief of Cuba's Liberation Army during the 1895 War of Independence. The article emphasizes how Gómez represents internationalism for Cubans, demonstrating that the homeland is not merely where one is born but where one fights and builds. Doris Pizarro analyzes Puerto Rico as a colonial enclave in the Caribbean.

The "Asia" section features Luis M. Arce's "Viet Nam: por la senda de la gloria" (Vietnam: on the path of glory), examining the historic political-military events of greater transcendence in the Vietnamese people's struggle for definitive independence, including Ho Chi Minh's role as strategist, politician, and guerrilla leader. The "Libros de Hoy" (Books of Today) section reviews "La CIA en Centroamérica y el Caribe" by Günter Neuberger y Michael Opperskalski, exposing over 260 years of CIA operations in Central America and the Caribbean.

Chilean Pedro Vuskovic examines the Latin American financial crisis through the perspective of the IMF and Latin American economic crisis. The issue concludes with "Tricontinental en Marcha," providing updates on principal solidarity activities of OSPAAAL, including the 25th anniversary of the Angolan independence struggle.

This 1986 issue demonstrates how OSPAAAL continued linking peace advocacy with anti-imperialist struggle, arguing that genuine peace required not just absence of war but elimination of the structural violence of debt, neocolonialism, and military intervention that kept the Third World subjugated. Enríquez's optimistic design perfectly captures this message—peace doves carrying the flags of liberation movements triumphantly overcoming the forces of militarism and imperialism.