The current Mexican flag is a variation of the flag which Venustiano Carranza approved in The eagle on the coat of arm was changed to a side-facing position from a front facing. Before they adopted their current flag, various official flags were used by the government.
These flags had three color bands and the only thing that has changed with time was the coat of arm. Mexico adopted their current flag on September 16, One of the critical reasons for the flag change was because Mexico City hosted the Summer Olympic Games of The country also legally abandoned their merchant ensign on the same year because without the coat of arm it resembled the Italian flag.
Previously, the red band represented the union of Europeans and Americans, white symbolized religion, and green stood for independence.
The meaning of these colors changed during the secularization of Mexico under President Juarez. Currently, the red stripe stands for the blood of their heroes who lost their lives while fighting for their independence, white means unity, and green stand for hope. According to legend his is in fact what they saw in Mexico City which is why they built the capital city there. The origins of the official establishment of the Mexican flag complete with the eagle dates back to the Olympic games of held in Mexico city.
Before the Mexican flag was often used without the Eagle picture in the middle, however this presented a problem as it looked too similar to the Italian flag which uses exactly the same colors in the same order.
To prevent confusion the Mexican government ordered that henceforth the flag of Mexico should have the eagle emblem on it. The symbolism of the three colors of the Mexican flag is also best explained in light of Mexican history. The color green was chosen for the flag to represent independence from Spain. The color red was originally intended to represent unity with Europe, which was still in many ways the cultural motherland of many of the Mexican elite classes.
The color white is said to be representative of the purity of the Catholic religion which predominated in Mexico. Before modern Mexico, the Aztec Empire existed. It flourished between c. By the time the first Spanish arrived in Mexico in , the empire still existed. Mexico under colonial rule was known as New Spain Nueva Spania. The Aztecs were defeated by the Spanish in , and for the next years, the region was under Spanish rule.
The flag of New Spain consisted of a yellow stripe between two red lines. An emblem representing the Spanish Empire was located on the yellow line. The cross of Burgundy, a red cross on a white background, was also used to represent New Spain.
There were many attempts towards freedom from Spain, but significant uprisings began in Insurgent forces consisting mostly of peasants, renegade military forces, and creoles adopted a white and blue banner that symbolized the Virgin of Guadalupe. They also had an emblem of an Eagle holding a snake on a prickly branch with rock and water within the symbol.
The Eagle insignia is still used in the national flag. This flag consisted of tricolors white, green, red. The stripes appeared diagonally with each band consisting of a seven-pointed yellow star. In , the country finally achieved independence. The Iguana Plan independence movement Plan de Iguala , had led the country to victory.
Plan De Iguala chose a flag that consisted of the same colors as the flag of the Three Guarantees and had some similarity to the French tricolor blue-white-red. However, the Mexicans identified with those colors as similar versions of the flag had existed before.
The color green symbolized independence, white symbolized the Roman Catholic, whereas red symbolized the unity between the native Americans and the ethnic Spaniards.
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