PEL (Panorama Económico Latinoamericano), published by Prensa Latina in Havana, served as a vital platform for analyzing Latin American economic and political developments from a revolutionary Cuban perspective. This June 1970 issue features a powerful cover story titled "Se han llevado un Chile entero" (They Have Taken an Entire Chile), addressing foreign exploitation of Chilean resources. The cover design employs a dramatic grid composition with five panels in bold red, yellow, black, and cream, depicting a Chilean miner or soldier, industrial machinery, workers in silhouette, an Easter Island moai statue, and indigenous textile patterns—creating a visual narrative that connects labor exploitation, natural resource extraction, and cultural heritage under threat from imperialism.
Published during the final months before Salvador Allende's historic electoral victory in September 1970, this issue documents the mounting economic crisis and foreign control that would become central to Allende's Popular Unity platform. Prensa Latina, Cuba's official international news agency founded in 1959, positioned PEL as a counterpoint to Western economic analysis, providing solidarity-oriented coverage of Latin American struggles against multinational corporations and U.S. economic domination. The magazine's bold graphic approach, combining documentary photography with graphic abstraction, exemplified how Cuban publications used visual design to communicate complex economic arguments about dependency, underdevelopment, and anti-imperialist resistance throughout the hemisphere during a period of escalating political conflicts across Latin America.