"Let's Stick to it!"
Art Woods’ political cartoon shows a rifle with a bayonet that has, "U.S. Demands" lurched through a paper labeled "'On the
Spot' Inspection," into Cuba. This cartoon was drawn and published in
1962, in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is also the same year in which Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev,
Soviet Premier, decided to take the
Russian missiles out of Cuba and also agreed to "on the spot"
inspection. Fidel Castro (Cuban Premier) however, would not allow the examiners
to complete the “on the spot" inspection as originally planned. Art Wood, the artist and
creator of this cartoon, conveys his opinion that the Cubans should be held
accountable for their original promise.