Question d’un non-Vénézuélien : J’ai remarqué que le drapeau hissé par les joueurs lors de la cérémonie WBC et brandi par de nombreux fans a 7 étoiles, alors que le drapeau officiel 🇻🇪 en a 8. Y a-t-il une signification derrière cela ?
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Par baribigbird06
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That’s the flag from before 2006 when Chavez made some modifications, including the 8th star.
Venezuelan politics is… complicated.
The 8 Star flag represents that Guayana, the independent English speaking country that borders Venezuela, is a part of Venezuela. It’s a Chavez Maduro government era thing.
The 7 star flag is the flag Venezuela has had for most of it’s history.
The 8th star was Chavez adding it in 2006 to symbolize Guyana (which Venezuela still kinda claims a piece of to this day). It is seen now as the flag of the government and the 7 star as the flag of the opposition
Nine wasn’t good enough, 7 had to go after 8 as well.
“If you look back, that flag with the 7 stars, that was when I carried you” -Tarik Skubal, somehow