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The current Santa Cruz department flag is the flag used
by Ignacio Warnes Mercado and other patriots in the war of
independence. The green is the vegetation and the hope, and
the white is purity and nobility.
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Jaume Ollé, 02 Nov 1996
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The flag is the horizontally divided green-white-green flag of the
department of Santa Cruz, charged in the middle with a coat of arms.
A picture by David Mercado (Reuters)
shows Ruben Costas, President of the Santa Cruz Civic Union holding a
flag during a rally in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 28 January 2005. Tens of
thousands of residents of Santa Cruz demanded the Bolivian government
grant autonomy for their region. No doubt it would become the flag of
the autonomous region, if granted.
Ivan Sache, 02 Feb 2005
In a demonstration in Santa Cruz,
in addition to a sea of
regular Santa Cruz state green-white-green flags
there were several examples of this variant: Identical but somewhat
squarish in proportion and with the caption «Autonomía» in the
upper half of the white, central third. They looked printed, not
handmade.
Eugene Ipavec, 04 Feb 2005
Dark-green with a Jerusalem cross in a
white circle. This could very well be just a literally-appropriate flag
for Santa Cruz, but since the political conflict
pits a pro-indigenous federal government in La Paz against a
«European-descended conservative elite»,
to quote the article, might this be a racial-separatism flag? Color scheme
aside, it bears a distinct similarity to white-power
designs.
Eugene Ipavec, 04 Feb 2005
Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Republic 1904)
Jaume Ollé, 20 Jan 1997
Flag used by independentists in 1904-1960s.
Jan Zrzavy, 01 Sep 1999
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