What Shade of Blue Is the in the Paraguay Flag

Sometimes geopolitical changes make headlines, but other times they sideslip quietly under the radar. In particular, small-scale modifications to national flags often fail to make the news. To make certain you don't miss annihilation, hither's a report on one such flag alter that even we discovered merely recently.

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Past Olga Rodriguez-Walmisley

2013 Flag Change
On July xv, 2013, Federico Franco, at that time the President of Paraguay, announced that the official seals on both sides of the Paraguayan flag would undergo changes in gild to improve represent the symbols first chosen for it in 1842. These two seals together make up the national glaze of arms of Paraguay.

Franco said the modifications were the result of a long debate and "a consensus that is not ofttimes achieved among historians". At that place had already been several changes to the seals in the past, especially after the Paraguayan War of 1864-1870, which pitted the land against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.

Changes made to the National Seal
I of the biggest of the 2013 changes was to the ring around the star, where information technology says "República del Paraguay". This band has been crimson since near 1988, when it was changed under the rule dictator Alfredo Stroessner, whose political party was represented past that color. It is now white. The blue background behind the yellow star has too disappeared, and the text of the phrase "República del Paraguay" has changed from yellowish to black.

Changes made to the Seal of the Treasury
On the contrary side of the flag, the roaring lion is now a light ochre (gilded) color instead of yellowish, the spear behind the king of beasts is dark-brown, while the cap on top of the spear, which according to tradition symbolizes liberty, continues to be red. The inscription "Paz y Justicia" (Peace and Justice) is now black instead of yellow, and the imprint behind the inscription has gone from cherry-red to white.

Country Name:
• Paraguay (English, Spanish)
• Paraguái (Guarani)
Official Proper name:
• Democracy of Paraguay (English)
• República del Paraguay (Spanish)
• Tetã Paraguái (Guarani)
Uppercase: Asunción

Other proposed changes
According to Paraguayan Minister of Linguistic Policy Carlos Villagra Marsal, at that place were too unfruitful efforts to supervene upon the palm frond on the National Seal with a pindo palm, and the olive branch with yerba mate, which would in his stance have been improve national symbols. Even so, he said the historians preferred to render to the original designs, rather than add entirely new elements to the flag.

The Paraguayan Flag Through History

The Blue Flag as flown under Francia

Since its independence in 1811, Paraguay has had four different major flag designs. The first flag of Paraguay, called "The Bluish Flag," was a royal blue color, with a 6-pointed white star in the upper left corner representing the Virgin Mary of Asunción, who is the patron saint and namesake of the country'due south capital metropolis. The Bluish Flag was in action from May 15th (the day Paraguay became independent from Espana) until June 16th of 1811. In 1826, it was reinstated past President Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, and used in alternation with the red, white, and blueish tricolor until the early 1840's, when Francia died.

Paraguay's second major flag design, used from June 17th until August 15th of 1811, was made up of three horizontal stripes of red, yellow, and blueish. The ruddy and xanthous stripes on the top were taken from the flag of Kingdom of spain, while the blueish stripe on the bottom represented the Virgin Mary of Asunción.

The third flag had the same color scheme as the present-solar day Paraguayan flag: ruddy, white, and blue horizontal stripes. Red represented justice, white peace, and blue liberty. Still, in the initial design the eye white stripe was wider than the other two, while the present-day flag sports 3 equal-width stripes. The early version of the flag was used until September 30th, 1812, when information technology was modified so that the three stripes were of equal width. The new tricolor was called the "starting time flag of the Democracy", since 1812 was the year Paraguay declared itself a democracy, formally shedding its past as a province of Spain.

The seals of the Paraguayan glaze of arms were added to the flag in November of 1842. On the front end, the seal of Paraguay: a palm frond and olive co-operative intertwined at the bottom and open up at the meridian, with a star in the middle, and the inscription "República del Paraguay" (Republic of Paraguay) above. On the reverse side of the flag, the seal of the Department of the Treasury was added: a lion within a circumvolve, with the words "Paz y Justicia" (Peace and Justice) higher up.

Paraguay's flag is unique in that the front and back have different designs: Saudia Arabia is the only other UN-recognized land with a national flag whose reverse side is not a mirror of the obverse—simply in the example of the Saudi flag, the back side is merely a indistinguishable of the front side to forbid the flag'southward sacred text from being reversed. (Until recently, Moldova'southward flag also had a different forepart and dorsum, only it was changed in 2010 and so the two sides are now normal mirror images of each other.)

Graphics of the Paraguayan flag, other than the red, gold, and bluish tricolor, are in the public domain (source).

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Source: https://www.polgeonow.com/2015/07/paraguays-subtle-flag-change.html