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image by Santiago Dotor, 26 January 2001
Yesterday the Spanish Undersecretary for Immigration travelled
to Ecuador to negotiate an agreement on the immigrants' quota.
Images on TV showed crowds of people waving small plastic flags.
Some looked handmade, others more or less industry manufactured.
There were of course many mistaken variants, for instance the
Spanish flag was shown with stripes of equal width, the
Ecuadorian flag with the stripes in reverse order, also in
mistaken order.
However there was one flag, apparently a variant of the
Ecuadorian one, which struck me particularly. Firstly because it
had too many differences with the national flag, secondly because
many people were displaying exactly the same flag, thirdly
because it did not look like being homemade but printed on
plastic.
It was a triband of light green, yellow, red, in proportions
2+1+1. It does not seem to appear in any of the Ecuadorian flags'
pages in FOTW.
Santiago Dotor, 26 January 2001
Could that be a version of the State Flag of El Oro, without the national flag at the
canton?
Miles Li, 26 January 2001
Well, it could, but... it looks more like a coincidence. To
start with, El Oro is quite far away from Quito (the Ecuadorian
capital) to drive so many demonstrators over there. Secondly, the
flag mentioned by Miles Li appears under the heading
"Previously reported two WRONG flags" and with a
footnote "by Željko Heimer, 15 July 1996 (flag
according to W. Smith (insecure))". Thirdly, it certainly has
a canton which the flags I saw lacked. Fourthly, the shade of
green was much lighter in those flags.
Santiago Dotor, 26 January 2001
I saw that flag too for a few seconds, but to me it seems as
2:1:2.
At <dailynews.yahoo.com>
there is a image is related with the one reported by Santiago. It
seems to be a Bolivian flag (caption say Ecuadorian flag bust is
clearly wrong). Perhaps people from Bolivia is between the
immigrants. I agree with Santiago, the yellow stripe in the flag
seen was narrower
Jaume Ollé, 26 January 2001
No, I could see it for longer period and it was definitely
2:1:1. No doubt about that point, nor about the (light) shade of
green. That flag at <dailynews.yahoo.com>
is probably nothing to do with the one I spotted. It is being
flown by South American immigrants in Spain, so it might be any
South American flag, and most probably it is Bolivian immigrants
who appear in the picture.
The flags I spotted were being flown at the Ecuadorian capital
(Quito), by many people (all waving the same flag, all new,
manufactured flags) welcoming (or perhaps demonstrating against!)
the Spanish Undersecretary for Immigration. And the colours
showed regular shades for both red and yellow, but a very bright
green.
Santiago Dotor, 29 January 2001