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image by Fred Drews and Jaume Olle', 18 August
1999
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image from <www.guanaquin.com>
Fred & Jaume reported the department's flag as vertical
blue-red seperated by a S-like wavy white line. However, <www.guanaquin.com
report the flag as blue-red charged with bold S.
Dov Gutterman, 13 June 2003
I believe that is same flag. Lack of regulation derive that
each manufacturer or artist interpret it in own way. The
description in spanish for the flag is not corresponding to the
image in the reported page: "Un listón angosto
blanco, en forma de S, letra inicial del nombre de la ciudad que
abraza el ancho del emblema, es representación de los ideales de
paz" - A narrow band in form of S, capital letter of the
city name, taht has the wide of the emblem (This mean, IMHO, the
wide of the flag, from top to the bottom), represent the peace
ideal. This description is adequated only to the flag reported by
Fred. Its article was published in Flag Report 1, and images put
in the web page of ACV. Surely for the artist that made the flag,
it was easier to put a "S" in any font, but this is not
accurate.
Jaume Olle', 14 June 2003
The guanaquin publication has a lot of errors they do not have
the software to create or people that know about flags so they
can create faithful reproductions, so they use or interpret
things that seem similar, as it also has happened with the flag
of Usulután and Morazán.
In the first case they put the stars at random on the flag, on
the second they used the flag of the city instead of the
department.
I have met with the governor of usulatan and cabanas and others
and have had the flags in my hands as well as the government
documents where it appears and was given photocopies of
them. I am working with a top consular official from the
foreign relations ministry to create the web page on the national
emblems of the country and their history, because there ar e a
lot of misconceptions on flags, specially with the 1865-1912
flag, due to people interpreting them wrong. I have gotten
most of the laws describing them and have met with most of the
governors of the departments or their secretaries.
Fred Drews, 14 June 2003
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image from <www.guanaquin.com>