Prensa Latina (cover design: unknown; director: M. Fernández Colino), "PEL - Panorama Económico Latinoamericano No. 321: Reservas de Azucar," April 1970. Print magazine.

This April 1970 issue of PEL (Panorama Económico Latinoamericano) addresses global sugar reserves during a critical period for Cuba's sugar-dependent economy. The cover employs bold graphic design combining pink, green, black, and cream in a modernist grid composition featuring woodcut-style illustrations of sugarcane stalks, bundled cane, flowering sugar plants, and agricultural laborers cutting cane. The prominent "7 0 1970 19" typography emphasizes the historic 1970 harvest year when Cuba attempted its ambitious 10-million-ton sugar harvest goal—a massive national mobilization that would ultimately fall short but transform Cuban society and economy.

Published by Prensa Latina under director M. Fernández Colino, this issue appeared as Cuba redirected enormous resources toward sugar production, with Fidel Castro declaring the harvest a "moral commitment" to demonstrate revolutionary capabilities. The magazine's analysis of global sugar reserves provided crucial context for understanding Cuba's strategy of leveraging sugar exports to finance development and maintain economic independence despite the U.S. embargo. The cover's aesthetic choices—woodcut imagery evoking both folk traditions and socialist realist labor iconography—visualized sugar production as simultaneously traditional agrarian practice and modern revolutionary endeavor, reflecting ongoing tensions in Cuba's development model between agricultural monoculture inherited from colonialism and aspirations toward diversified industrial socialism.