Carlito Rovira – My blog

Me in 1969, member of the Young Lords.
Me on security at a Young Lords rally on New York City’s Lower East Side, 1971. Photo taken by Beverly Grant.

At a protest in the South Bronx days before the Young Lords takeover of Lincoln Hospital.

Oh yes, just in case you didn’t know, I am a Red. I embrace Marxism-Leninism because I am a Socialist. It is a system that WE NEED DESPERATELY. Don’t get that part about me twisted. I’ve been a socialist since the Young Lords Party – We studied Marxist literature – regardless of what distorters of that history may say.

A double portrait of my sweetheart Queen, Lisa B. Jones and me.
30″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Painted in 2022.

What I love painting are revolutionaries. These are historic individuals who deserve grandeur but will not receive it properly by the mainstream.

Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos. 24″ X 30″ acrylic paint on canvas. Lolita Lebron. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Lorraine Hansberry. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Malcolm X. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Dr. Ramon Emeterio Betances. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Harriet Tubman. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Blanca Canales, 20″ X 24″, acrylic Paint on canvas. Mutulu Shakur, 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
V.I. Lenin. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Lucy Parsons. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Assata Shakur. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. Emiliano Zapata. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Karl Marx. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. Frida Kahlo, 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Mumia Abu-Jamal. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Celia Sanchez. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Lola Rodríguez De Tió, 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Fred Hampton. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Laila Khaled. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Hugo Chavez. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Jiang Qing. 24″ X 36″, acrylic paint on canvas. Marcus Garvey. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Fidel Castro Ruz. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. Fannie Lou Hamer. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Mama Tingo. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. Ernesto Che Guevara, 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Filiberto Ojeda Rios. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Queen Mother Moore. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Rosa Luxemburg. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Patrice Lumumba. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Rafael Cancel Miranda. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Yuri Kochiyama. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Audre Lorde. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Ho Chi Minh. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
James Connolly. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Blanca Canales. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
BPP Afeni Shakur. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. John Brown. 24″ X 36″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Luisa Capetillo. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Russell Maroon Shoatz. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Amilcar Cabral. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Gabriela Silang. 24″ X 36″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Haydee Santamaria. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. Mutulu Shakur. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
George Jackson. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Lorraine Hansberry. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas.
BPP Safia Bukari, 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. Leon Trotsky, 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Jose Cha-Cha Jimenez, 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Gen. Nguyen Thi Dinh, 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Evelina Antonetty, 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas. Thomas Sankara, 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
BPP Don Cox. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. BPP Cleo Silvers. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Shirley Chisholm. 20″X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. Patrice Lumumba. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas
BPP Sekou Odinga. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas. –Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.
Sylvia Rivera. 24″ X 30″, acrylic paint on canvas —– General Võ Nguyên Giap. 20″ X 24″, acrylic paint on canvas.

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