Flag Friday - Mexico

Symbolism and Colors:

Green -  The  Independence Movement  Hope

White -  The purity of the Catholic faith Purity

Red - The Spaniards that joined in the quest for Independence.
The blood of the National Heroes Union

The emblem-shield  symbolizes the Aztec heritage.  According to a beautiful legend, the gods had advise the Aztecs that the place where they should establish their city was to be identified when they saw an eagle, perched on a prickly pear tree, devouring a serpent.  They saw this mythical eagle on a marshy lake that is now the zócalo or main plaza in Mexico City.

The above information is from this site.

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation had been making an impressive recovery until the global financial crisis hit in late 2008. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. The elections held in 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition candidate - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 by another PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON. In January 2009, Mexico assumed a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2009-10 term.

Population:
111,211,789  (July 2009 est.)

Languages:
Spanish only 92.7%, Spanish and indigenous languages 5.7%, indigenous only 0.8%, unspecified 0.8%; note - indigenous languages include various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional languages (2005)

Government type:
federal republic

Capital:
Mexico (Distrito Federal)

Independence:
16 September 1810 (declared); 27 September 1821 (recognized by Spain)

Currency (code):
Mexican peso (MXN)

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