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Cuban and Puerto Rican Flag

Does anyone know why the Cuban and Puerto Rican flags are practically the same?

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Answer #1

Its design is the same as the Cuban flag except the colours are inverted, x

Answer #2

Yeah, it’s an interesting story. The Cuban flag was designed first, by Cuban exiles who wanted to free the island from Spanish rule. I forget what all the colors in the Cuban flag represent, but the story goes that a guy named Antonio Velez saw the Cuban flag in New York. He thought it would look interesting to invert the colors of the Cuban flag, and he sketched a rough draft that eventually became very popular among Cuban revolutionaries. Francisco Marin, a Puerto Rican national also living in the US, noticed the flag and decided to sew it and display it to a gathering of revolutionaries. From there it became accepted as the Puerto Rican flag.

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