Question from a non-Venezuelan: I noticed that the flag raised by the players during the WBC ceremony and waived by many fans has 7 stars, whereas the official flag 🇻🇪 has 8. Is there significance/meaning behind this?
Question from a non-Venezuelan: I noticed that the flag raised by the players during the WBC ceremony and waived by many fans has 7 stars, whereas the official flag 🇻🇪 has 8. Is there significance/meaning behind this?
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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
the 8th star got taken away with maduro
How tf you notice that? Lol
They’ll be deep in the cold cold ground before they recognize Missourah
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I read up on this and went to r/vzla and they had some nice insight on what it meant to the citizens.
yeah the 7-star flag is basically Venezuela’s old school look before Chavez switched it up in 2006, so you’ll see it pop up at events like this where people are using older imagery or just prefer how it looked.
The 8th flag is meant to represent the region of Guayana(not confuse it with Guyana and Esequibo) but rather the state of bolivar delta amacuro and Amazonas who where once a unified province that joined Venezuela after independence, Chavez used it to (honor) them because they don’t get recognize enough for not signing it at the same time the other provinces did so it should be a good thing but I think you know who Chavez is and what he did so that’s why the 7th star flag id seen as an anti-Chávez/maduro symbol. And about the cost of arms, Chavez changed it to represent his political ideology which is the far left.
They ordered some flags from TEMU and they have the wrong number of stars. /s
The players are the 8th star
We only claim the 7 stars. The 8th star was added unilaterally. We had no say in it and still consider the 7 star flag, our one true flag. This can get very contencious inside the country…..
This reminded me of being at the 2009 Venezuela WBC games in Toronto, and when Endy Chavez would bat, folks would chant, “Endy si, Chavez no”
The 8th star flag represents the “5th republic” that Hugo Chavez claimed to reorganize. Chavez went in thru his tenure to create the greatest immigration flight from one country in world history. Along with the 8th star Chavez changed the name to The Bolivan Republic of Venezuela. May he burn in hell for all the damage he has & still doing to the Venezuelan people
7 innings in baseball. So 7 stars?
Interesting
The US put 50 stars on their flag on July 4th 1960. Before that they briefly had a 49 star flag. This would be like an American flying a flag with 49 stars instead of 50 in 1980. Probably not meant to mean anything and just an accident.