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Learn about the history and meaning of the national flag and other flags used in or associated with Uruguay. See images and descriptions of presidential, military, departmental, political, historical and burgee flags.
Learn about the history, design and symbolism of the national flag of Uruguay, one of the three official flags of the country. The flag has nine horizontal stripes of blue and white and a golden Sun of May in the canton.
The design features three horizontal stripes: the top stripe, blue, represents greatness; the center one, white, is a symbol of the Republic; and the bottom one, red, honors the blood of those who died for freedom and independence. Uruguay's national motto Libertad o Muerte ("Freedom or Death") reads on the center stripe.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Nearly five decades after Uruguayan security forces seized Amelia Sanjurjo from the street, disappearing the newly pregnant woman into the maw of the military's prison ...
Flags are also flown at half-staff on Memorial Day on the last Monday of May, or other national memorial occasions, such as the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Show comments Advertisement
Today, Kenny and his nephew Stewart Thigpen run the day-to-day operations at Tattoo Bill’s, one of Charlotte’s longest-operating, family-owned tattoo shops. This year marks the shop’s 25th ...
Susana Pintos Lepra (25 September 1939 – 21 September 1968 [1] [2]) was one of the thirteen student martyrs who were killed in Uruguay between 1968 and 1985. She was a student at the School of Construction of the Work University of Uruguay and a militant of the Uruguay Federation of University Students [] (FEUU), the ANCAP Federation (FANCAP), and the Union of Communist Youth (UJC).
A former winner of the Miss Uruguay pageant was found dead in a hotel in Mexico City on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.. Fatimih Davila Sosa, 31, was found hanged in the bathroom of a ...