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Cuba Flag |
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The national flag of Cuba commemorates the fights
and wars against Spanish rule over Cuba. The
Venezuelan General Naciso Lopez played a significant
role in the making of the national Cuban flag.
General Lopez belonged to free masonry and had
humanist and republican ideals. All his ideals and
inspiration determined the national flag of Cuba.
After having discussed with the poet Miguel Teurbe
Tolon about what he wanted to be included in it, the
poet drew and designed the flag. The latter was
afterwards embroidered by his wife Emila Tolon. The
flag with ratio length to width of 1: 2 is full of
symbolism: red represents the blood shed by the
Cuban patriots and their ancestors for their
freedom; blue that the island of Cuba is surrounded
by the sea; and white, the purity and fairness of
their cause. The three equilateral triangles with
its three equal angles and sides symbolise the equal
rights and justice that every citizen of Cuba should
enjoy while sending us back to the French Republican
ideology of liberty, fraternity and equality. The
five stars with one pointing to the north symbolises
harmony between the social and moral ideals that
should guide an independent country. The three
stripes represent the three original districts of
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On the 19 May 1850, the flag
was first hoisted in the Province of Matanzas by the
anti-Spanish troops. On that same day, the Venezuela
General Narciso Lopez and the Cuban liberation
movement launched an attack on the City of Cardenas.
The battle was unsuccessful but this strengthened
their liberation movements. The War of independence
started on 10 October 1868 and six months later on
11 April 1869, the Constituent Assembly of Cuba,
held in Guaimaro, accepted the flag as their
national emblem. During the following nineteen years
in their struggle for independence, the national
flag accompanied them their struggle against Spanish
rule. Cuba became independent in the year 1902 and
ever since it has been used in the formal ceremonies
and punctuated life of Cuban nationals. |
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Inland and overseas, the national flag plays an
important role. With its republican and democratic
ideals of justice, freedom and equality, the
national Cuban flag has inspired other nations among
others the Puerto Rico and Philippines. |
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