This exhibition revisits the struggles fought in 1965 to restore democracy in the Dominican Republic. Fifty-seven years after the event, the institution pays tribute to the people’s uprising with a pictorial display that combines photography, video, and drawings.

The exhibition takes its title from a popular slogan that emerged spontaneously among the constitutionalist civilian population and became a collective outcry: “Arms for the People.”

The show is based on a series of portraits and drawings by visual artist and social activist Noa Batlle, set amidst photographs and videos of the 1965 battles. It is inspired by the anonymous youth who, on April 25, learned over the radio that a countercoup was underway and that the Triumvirate was about to fall.

Spread across three rooms, the exhibition highlights the role of unnamed figures who became heroes and heroines when facing the troops of San Isidro and later the U.S. military invasion. “Arms for the People” is a tribute to the spirit of struggle embraced by young Dominican civilians, despite the unequal conditions against the invader, and to the enduring mark that struggle left in the decades that followed.