The events of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) helped shape the anti-fascist agenda of Mexico City’s Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP; People’s Print Workshop). In the gruesome clash that foreshadowed World War II, fascist Germany and Italy came to the support of General Francisco Franco (1892–1975), while Mexico’s leftist arts and labor organizations were among those who rallied on the side of the Spanish Republic. While governments in Europe and the United States claimed neutrality, Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas (1895–1970) denounced Franco’s army, offered aid to the Spanish Republic, and welcomed exiles. Alberto Beltrán commemorated Cárdenas’s involvement a decade later. In this linocut, Cárdenas holds the Mexican flag in one hand and extends his other hand to lead the charge. This print draws an implicit link between Cárdenas’s reforms in support of the working classes—and by extension the Republican forces—and his intervention in foreign politics and the battle against fascism.