Peña Nieto sticker from Mexico

I picked up a few Mexican stickers from a group called Sublevarte Colectivo at the Boston Anarchist Book Fair last fall, and one of my students wrote descriptions for them for the Street Art Graphics digital image collection. “Vota a Peña Nieto” literally means “Vote for Peña Nieto.”  This is an image one sees all the time in Mexico, in campaign ads, bomber stickers, and painted on the sides of houses.  While this suggests that one should vote for Peña Nieto, the message of the image is turned around with the word “asesino.”  “Asesino” means assassin and is a direct…