Orwell On Politics

"Posters are important in Spain, with its large illiterate population."

To be fair, he's talking about 1936.

This quote answered a question I hadn't realized I had asked myself a couple years ago. In Mexico before elections posters littered every fence and pole - I could have told you the competing candidates for Tijuana comptroller. Didn't understand until just now.

(Comptroledor? Unlikely.)