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The winner of today’s Bolivian presidental election is
Evo Morales of the Movimento al Socialismo — MAS, who
will be the first Indian president of Bolivia. Many of his followers were
waving a blue flag with black and white stripes at the edge. Proportions
seem to be approx. 1:2. I checked their
homepage, but wasn’t able to
find informations of the flag; their colours seem to be blue, black and white.
The Indian [Qullasuyu] flag is a lot in used
there.
J. Patrick Fischer, 19 Dec 2005
I seen this flag (though I’d say it is 3:5 or 2:3, not 1:2) in
photos of Morales’ campaign meetings. The final scenes of this party
on line animation suggest
that this is indeed the flag of MAS.
António Martins, 20 Dec 2005
"MAS" (from Movimento al Socialismo = Movement towards Socialism),
by the way, may be interpreted as the Spanish word "mas", meaning
"more".
António Martins, 20 Dec 2005
According to Mary del Carmen Arias, leader of the ADN party in Santa
Cruz de la Sierra, the party will not use [in the 2005 presidential elections]
either the colours or the arrow which
characterizes the party. She said: «We will not use our red,
black and white flag since we will be incorporated in a new alliance
of parties». It seems that ADN will unconditionally rally the
banner of the Poder Democrático Social. ADN
seems to be an historical party in Bolivia. In 2002, the controversial
General Hugo Banzer (1926-2002) transmitted the national direction of the
party to Jorge Quiroga. (Source: El Debier, Santa Cruz de la Sierra,
1 September 2005)
Ivan Sache, 14 Sep 2005
Poder Democrático Social, created by former President of
the Republic Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga: The new alliance should use a red
flag with the name of the party. (Source: El Debier, Santa Cruz
de la Sierra, 1 September 2005)
Ivan Sache, 14 Sep 2005
The acronym of this party, "Podemos" (from Poder Democrático
Social = Social Democratic Power), may be interpreted as the Spanish word
"podemos", meaning "we can".
António Martins, 09 Apr 2006
Members of the armed forces of Bolivia have consituted a citizens’
group (agrupación ciudadana) called Transformación
Democrática Patriótica (Tradepa) in order to take part
to the Constituent Assembly. General Mario Zambrana, commander of the Second
Division of the Army, said that the armed force
represetn an important component of the society and have to take part to
the Constituent Assembly. All citizens believing in their armed forces are
invited to register with Tradepa. To be recognized by the Electoral National
Court, the group needs to collect 56,000 signatures at the national level.
The flag of Tradepa is red with a white disk in the middle, charged with the
word Tradepa in blue letters. (Sources: La Patria Bolivia, 2 August
2005; RedBolivia, 3 August 2005)
Ivan Sache, 14 Sep 2005
The flag of Izquerda Unida (United Left) party / coalition
is a horizontal tricolour of yellow red and green with the
symbol centered, which consists of the bolivian map in white
outlined black containing the letters "IU" in red, except the
dot of the "I", which is yellow with a green ring, and the
name below in yellow: "IZQUIERDA UNIDA". The overall
proportions are about 1:2. This flag is obviously based on the
1826 bolivian flag.
Speculating a bit, I’d say that it has something to do with
the wish for a connection with revolution and revolutionnary
movements as part of the world’s left-wing immaginary.
Jorge Candeias, 26 Jun 1999
The party website is at
http://www.bolivian.com/iu.
Dov Gutterman, 05 Nov 1998
This party is indeed amerindian based and the complete
name is Eje Pacha Kuti — "eje" meaning
"axis" and "pacha kuti" is an aymara
word meaning a change
between two phases of a cycle — "revolution" in it’s broader,
cosmogonic sense. There is also another flag at the site,
red over black with yellow star and lettering "pacha kuti"
bellow, in a squarish face. This flag follows a distinctly
anarchist / communist
pattern.
António Martins, 11 May 1999 and 22 Nov 1998
The party website is at
http://www.bolivian.com/eje.
Dov Gutterman, 05 Nov 1998
There is also a variant which is red over black with a yellow
star in the center and the party name in big yellow letters below
the star on the yellow stripe.
Dov Gutterman, 23 Nov 1998
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