Martha Washington Equivalent?
Submitted by fyl on Thu, 2012/07/12 - 14:55.
Or maybe preparation for next Thursday. :-) Actually, I was looking for a spare battery for my laptop and ran into this. It is from the early 1980s. Hand made with the letters cut out and sewed onto the red and black. All cotton.
A girlfriend of mine had got it when she was in Nicaragua in the early 1980s and gave it to me. I am not positive but that was probably in the late 1980s, over 10 years before my first visit here. One thing I do remember is that same year some real estate company in Seattle was giving US flags to people. They were small and plastic but all over. They said "Made in China". Somehow, this flag felt a bit more patriotic to the nation it was representing.
US History?
Perhaps you are referring to Betsy Ross and not Martha Washington?
And silly me, I always thought the national flag of Nicaragua was blue and white? Similar to the logo in the top left corner of the screen?
Political Party Flag NOT Nicaragua´s Flag.
You took the words out of my mouth. Mr Ortega and his adviser or should I say handler, Mrs Murillo have been trying for the longest time to etch into the people´s brain that the black and red represents Nicaragua and anything else doesn´t. I have but one flag and it is not red and black. I am Nica. Que Viva Nicaragua.
i HAPPENED TO BE DOWNTOWN
yesterday and ran into the july 16 Liberation of Esteli parade (it`s a local holiday here). I`d guess the national flag outnumbered the party banner by about 4 to 1.
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." Ayn Rand
Estelí has been Liberal, not Sandinista
Estelí has been Liberal, not Sandinista. That could explain the 4 to 1 ratio. Here in Ocotal, which has always been Sandinista, there are many more party banners than Nicaraguan flags.
If Esteli is Liberale
Watts must be stone Republican. I imagine their may be some sorting out with liberales celebrating Esteli Liberation day and the frente pushing harder on national liberation day. The Esteli voting machine, along with the Leon intelectuals, are 2 of the main backbones of Sandinismo.
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." Ayn Rand
Matagalpa is pretty FSLN, too, I've heard
The FSLN won; they're being gracious this year. Everything seemed to be much lower key than last year's night before and day of the Revolution's mornings bus jam (far fewer buses than last year).
Jinotega seems to be about as close to evenly split as a place can be without the FSLN actually losing, but everyone seems to be just getting on with things. I can guess how some people in the neighborhood voted; and suspect that some others may have voted FSLN because they would never ever vote conservative regardless, and one woman told me that the FSLN did some good, some bad and I have no idea how she voted. I think being human about the whole thing is better than the screeching polarization that's happening in the US (this is the year I wish Clint Eastwood was the Republican candidate for President), not that I haven't met one Nicaraguan shop keeper who has kin in US colleges and who hates the FSLN quite passionately.
Rebecca Brown
Oops
I meant Margaret Manny which should clear up the rest.
good ..
one..i dont think the material of the flag is important..its what it stands for..go usa
How many people was (or is) that flag representing?
Or rather, what percentage of the the population.
Fyl, I guess where you went wrong is in the comparison of the US Flag with the flag of a political party.
Hitler thought the swastica
represented Germany. Others thought otherwise...
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." Ayn Rand
Nicaragua Will Endure
long after Mr Ortega goes the way of his friend Hugo.
and maybe
someday the democratic elements in the fsln will take over the party. Hope so, but they are running 40 to 80 years behind schedule.
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." Ayn Rand
In the words of Martin Luther King
I have a dream. Anything is posible with time.