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La bandera de Puerto Rico consiste de cinco franjas horizontales, tres rojas y dos blancas alternadas y superpuesto sobre las franjas un triángulo equilátero azul, uno de cuyos lados forma el extremo de la bandera junto al asta. El color del triángulo es azul. Sobre el triángulo va superpuesta una estrella blanca de cinco puntas, colocada de tal forma que una de sus puntas señala hacia arriba.

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Flag of Puerto Rico

Design: Five equal horizontal bands of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; a blue (tone of blue may vary) isosceles triangle based on the hoist side bears a large, white, five-pointed star in the center.

The Flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico consists of five equal horizontal bands of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side bears a large, white, five-pointed star in the center.

From 1492 to 1952, the only flags permitted to be flown in Puerto Rico were the Spanish flag (1492 to 1898) and the flag of the United States (1898 to 1952). The Puerto Rican flag, which was unveiled in New York City in 1892, by the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee, was outlawed until 1952 when the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico adopted it as its official standard. However, the color of the triangle was changed from light blue to the same dark blue of the flag of the United States.

In 1995, the government of Puerto Rico issued a regulation in regard to the use of the Puerto Rican flag titled: "Reglamento sobre el Uso en Puerto Rico de la Bandera del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" in which the government specifies the colors to be used but, does not specify any official color tones or shades.

On March 15, 2009, the Puerto Rican flag was taken aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery during its flight into Outer Space.

Other flags used and flown in Puerto Rico are the flags of each of the 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico which represents the region and its people. Most of the political parties in Puerto Rico also have their own flags, which are usually displayed in public during rallies, meetings, or parades in show of political strength and unity.

History of the flag of Puerto Rico

The flag of Puerto Rico was designed by the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee. The flag's design has been attributed to various Puerto Ricans who were members of the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee in New York City.

Some sources document Francisco Gonzalo Marin with presenting a Puerto Rican flag prototype in 1895 for adoption by the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee in New York City. Marín has since been credited by some with the flag's design.

There is a letter written by Juan de Mata Terreforte, Vice-President of Puerto Rican Chapter of the Cuban Revolutionary Party which gives credit to Marin. The original contents of the letter in Spanish are the following:

"La adopción de la bandera cubana con los colores invertidos me fue sugerida por el insigne patriota Francisco Gonzalo Marín en una carta que me escribió desde Jamaica. Yo hice la proposición a los patriotas puertorriqueños que asistieron al mitin de Chimney Hall y fue aprobada unánimemente."

Which translated in English states the following: The adaptation of the Cuban Flag with the colors inverted was suggested by the patriot Francisco Gonzalo Marín in a letter which he wrote from Jamaica. I made the proposition to various Puerto Rican patriots during a meeting at Chimney Hall and it was approved unanimously.

According to other accounts on June 12, 1892, Antonio Vélez Alvarado was at his apartment at 219 Twenty-Third Street in Manhattan, when he stared at a Cuban flag for a few minutes, and then took a look at the blank wall in which it was being displayed. Vélez suddenly perceived an optical illusion, in which he perceived the image of the Cuban flag with the colors in the flag's triangle and stripes inverted. Almost immediately he visited a nearby merchant, Domingo Peraza, from whom he bought some crepe paper to build a crude prototype. He later displayed his prototype in a dinner meeting at his neighbor's house, where the owner, Micaela Dalmau vda. de Carreras, had invited José Martí as a guest. Martí was pleasantly impressed by the prototype, and made note of it in a newspaper article published in the Cuban revolutionary newspaper Patria, published on July 2 of that year. Acceptance of the prototype was slow in coming, but grew with time. Francisco Gonzalo Marín, who decided to have a proper flag sewn based on the prototype, presented the new flag's design in New York's "Chimney Corner Hall" a gathering place of independence advocates two years later. The Puerto Rican Flag (with the light blue triangle) soon came to symbolize the ideals of the Puerto Rican independence movement.

In a letter written by Maria Manuela (Mima) Besosa, the daughter of the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee member Manuel Besosa, she stated that she sewed the flag. This created a belief that her father could have been its designer. In her letter she described the flag as one which consists of five stripes that alternate from red to white. Three of the stripes are red, and the other two are white. To the left of the flag is a light blue triangle that houses one white five-pointed star. Each part of this flag has its own meaning. The three red stripes represent the blood from the brave warriors. The two white stripes represent the victory and peace that they would have after gaining independence. The white star represented the island of Puerto Rico. The blue represents the sky and blue coastal waters. The triangle represents the three branches of government.

Finally, it is also believed by some that it was Lola Rodríguez de Tió who suggested that Puerto Ricans use the Cuban flag with its colors reversed as the model for their own standard.

On March 24, 1897, a group of men, led by Fidel Vélez, carried the Puerto Rican flag and attacked the barracks of Spanish Civil Guard of the town Yauco during a revolt against Spanish rule known as the Yauco Attempt ("Intentona de Yauco"). This was the first time that the flag of Puerto Rico was used in the island.

From 1898 to 1952, after the December 10, 1898 annexation of Puerto Rico by the United States, it was considered a felony to display the Puerto Rican flag in public; the only flag permitted to be flown on the island was the flag of the United States.

The flag was often used in defiance by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. In 1932, the Nationalist Party used it as its emblem during the elections and would use the flag in their parades. On June 10, 1948, the United States appointed Governor of Puerto Rico, Jesús T. Piñero, signed the "Ley de la Mordaza" (Gag Law) or Law 53 as it was officially known passed by the Puerto Rican legislature, which made it illegal to display the Puerto Rican Flag, sing a patriotic song and talk of independence of the island.

Later that same year Puerto Ricans were permitted to elect a governor and they elected Luis Muñoz Marín. During the Jayuya Uprising of 1950 against United States rule, members of the Nationalist party placed the Puerto Rican flag on top of the town hall; the flag was later taken down by a military soldier.

In 1952, Governor Luis Muñoz Marín and his administration adopted the Puerto Rican flag which was originally designed in 1892, and proclaimed it the official national flag of Puerto Rico. The official adaptation of the flag has been interpreted by some as a ploy by Muñoz Marin to neutralize the independence movement in his own party.

There were some differences between the original flag of 1892 and the one of 1952 and the meaning of the colors was officially changed. Now the white bars stood for the republican form of government, rather than representing the victory and peace that Puerto Ricans were supposed to have after gaining independence.

The sky-blue of the triangle in the original flag was changed to dark blue, resembling that of the flag of the United States, to keep it distanced from its revolutionary roots. For nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, having the flag represent the government was a desecration, while the independence party accused the government of "corrupting beloved symbols". In 1995, the government of Puerto Rico began to use the sky-blue version once more.

The government of Puerto Rico issued a regulation in regard to the use of the Puerto Rican flag titled: "Reglamento sobre el Uso en Puerto Rico de la Bandera del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; Reglamento Núm. 5282." (Regulations in regard to the use in Puerto Rico of the flag of Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Regulation No. 5282). In the regulation's "Artículo 2: Definiciones" and "Artículo 2: Descripción y simbolismo" (Article 2: Description and Article 2: Description and symbolism) the government specifies the colors to be used but does not specify any official color tones or shades and as such it is not unusual to see the flag with either tone of blue flown in Puerto Rico.

On various occasions the flag has been used as a symbol of defiance and protest. In the 1954 attack of the United States House of Representatives in a protest against United States rule of the island, Nationalist leader Lolita Lebron shouted "¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!" ("Long live a Free Puerto Rico!") and unfurled the flag of Puerto Rico.

On November 5, 2000, Alberto De Jesus Mercado, better known as Tito Kayak and five other Vieques activists stepped onto the top deck of the Statue of Liberty in New York City then placed a Puerto Rican flag on the statues crown in protest of the United States Navy usage of the island of Vieques as a bombing range.

On March 15, 2009, the Puerto Rican flag was aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery during its flight into Outer Space. Joseph M. Acaba, the first astronaut of Puerto Rican descent, who is assigned to the crew of STS-119 as a Mission Specialist Educator, carried on his person the flag as a symbol of his Puerto Rican heritage.

Bandera de Puerto Rico.

La bandera de Puerto Rico consiste de cinco franjas horizontales, tres rojas y dos blancas alternadas y superpuesto sobre las franjas un triángulo equilátero azul, uno de cuyos lados forma el extremo de la bandera junto al asta. El color del triángulo es azul. Sobre el triángulo va superpuesta una estrella blanca de cinco puntas, colocada de tal forma que una de sus puntas señala hacia arriba.

La bandera se diseñó durante la última década del siglo XIX como insignia de los separatistas puertorriqueños residentes en la ciudad de Nueva York. La identidad del autor del diseño ha sido motivo de un acalorado debate, mencionándose entre sus posibles autores a los patriotas puertorriqueños José de la Matta Terreforte, Antonio Vélez Alvarado, Manuel Besosa y el poeta Guerrillero Gonzalo (Pachín) Marín. Sin embargo, una carta del 20 de mayo de 1923, escrita por Terreforte establece que fue Pachín Marín quien le propuso a Terreforte en una carta desde Jamaica, el diseño de la bandera y que éste último transmitió esa proposición en "Chimney Hall", donde se adoptó.[1]

La bandera simboliza la hermandad en la lucha revolucionaria entre el pueblo cubano y el puertorriqueño, debido al hecho de que, el grupo de separatistas puertorriqueños que adoptaron el diseño de la bandera como emblema de su grupo, la Sección de Puerto Rico, estaba asociada a los separatistas cubanos que luchaban con idénticos ideales bajo el Partido Revolucionario Cubano.[2]

Durante los años del 1898 al 1952 era un delito izar la bandera de Puerto Rico. El Partido Nacionalista la acogió como su emblema en las elecciones de 1932. Blanca Canales proclamó la República de Puerto Rico en el Grito de Jayuya en 1950 utilizando esta bandera y Lolita Lebrón la desplegó durante el ataque al Congreso en 1954. En los años 1916, 1922, 1927 y 1932 las cámaras legislativas trataron de oficializar la bandera sin éxito.

La bandera fue adoptada oficialmente por el Estado Libre Asociado en 1952. Según el gobierno, la estrella es símbolo del Estado Libre Asociado y reposa sobre un triángulo azul que en sus tres ángulos evoca la integridad de la forma republicana de gobierno representada por tres poderes: el legislativo, el ejecutivo y el judicial. Las tres franjas rojas simbolizan la sangre vital que nutre a esos tres poderes de Gobierno, los cuales desempeñan funciones independientes y separadas. La libertad del individuo y los derechos del hombre mantienen en equilibrio a los poderes y su misión esencial la representan dos franjas blancas.

Colores de la bandera

Las únicas referencias legales sobre los colores de la bandera se encuentran en la Ley del 24 de julio de 1952 y en el Reglamento sobre el Uso en Puerto Rico de la Bandera del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico:
Sección 1. La bandera del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico será la que tradicionalmente se ha conocido hasta ahora como la bandera puertorriqueña y que es rectangular, de cinco franjas horizontales alternadas, tres rojas y dos blancas y junto al asta un triángulo equilátero azul con una estrella blanca de cinco puntas. Este triángulo, por el lado vertical, abarca toda la anchura de la bandera.
Ley del 24 de julio de 1952[3]
Artículo 3. B. La bandera del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico es la que tradicionalmente se ha conocido hasta ahora como la bandera puertorriqueña. Su forma es rectangular, con franjas horizontales, alternadas, tres rojas y dos blancas, y tiene junto al asta un triángulo equilátero azul con una estrella blanca de cinco puntas. Este triángulo, por el lado vertical, abarca toda la anchura de la bandera.
Reglamento sobre el Uso en Puerto Rico de la Bandera del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico[4]

Ambos documentos describen de una manera muy similar la bandera. Pero, al no redactarse unas especificaciones técnicas, existe cierta confusión a la hora de elegir los tonos para los colores, especialmente en el caso del azul.

Desde que se aprobó en 1952, el triángulo era confeccionado con un azul oscuro muy semejante al de la bandera de los Estados Unidos.[cita requerida]Pero desde 1995, se han venido usando tonos de azul más claros.[cita requerida] Este cambio, por no estar estipulado en ley alguna, sigue sin resolver las posibles dudas sobre los colores. Así, por ejemplo, el azul de la bandera izada en los Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008 era oscuro.

Banderas históricas.

La bandera del Grito de Lares fue diseñada por Ramón Emeterio Betances. La bandera es similar a la bandera de la República Dominicana, ya que la Gesta Restauradora, que en 1865 terminó definitivamente con el dominio colonial español en Santo Domingo, fue uno de los motivadores de los patriotas borinqueños. La bandera tejida por Mariana Bracetti, conocida como "Brazo de Oro" fue desplegada en el altar mayor de la iglesia como señal que la revolución había comenzado. La bandera fue adoptada en 1952 como el símbolo oficial del municipio de Lares. La bandera original se conserva en el Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.