Frente Amplio party coalition, Uruguay

Last modified: 2004-12-28 by francisco gregoric
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• Flag variant with acronym logo
• Flag-like design
• Flags with symbols added

• Uruguayan political flags
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• Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio-Nueva Mayoría official website
  reported by Francisco Gregoric, 13 Dec 2004

Presentation

The Frente Amplio (Broad Front) is a leftist coalition formed in Uruguay some 30 years ago. They chose one of the first known Artigas flag as their own emblem and have used it ever since. Obviously when the Frente Amplio followers adopted this flag and design, they were evoking the times of the Patria Vieja, (the Old Fatherland).
Jorge Cajarville, 16 Jun 1999

The flag adopted by Frente Amplio is the Artigas flag hoisted in Montevideo in march 26, 1815. The leftist coalition Frente Amplio had its first public meeting in march 26, 1971. The electoral coalition called Encuentro Progresista was founded in 1994 by the Frente Amplio and other minor left parties, and still exists currently.
Rodolfo Tizzi, 10 Jul 2002

The Frente Amplio uses a tricolor flag (red-blue-white horizontal stripes) known as "Otorgués' Flag", because it is the same design aparently raised in Montevideo on March 1815 when Artiguist forces commanded by Fernando de Otorgués entered inside the city.
Francisco Gregoric, 5 Sep 2004

Courrier International 472 (18 November 1999) shows a colour picture of a street demonstration in Montevideo celebrating the victory on 31 October.

• Most flags are horizontal red-blue-white tricolors, in proportion 1:2.
• a white field with an emblem and letterings «...ENTE ... QUIERDA». The second world is probably "IZQUIERDA" (meaning "left")
• a yellow field with a red V, black 77 and «La Ver...»
• the F.A.A.U. flag with a yellow emblem on it, something like an equal sign over a wide A. [possibly "FA" — ed.]

The "white flag with an emblem and letterings «...ENTE ... QUIERDA»" mentioned, could be a flag of Corriente de Izquierda (Leftist Trend), a political group with former Tupamaros inside it.

The other flag mentioned: yellow field with a V, black 77, "La Ver..." probably was a flag from a political party inside the Frente Amplio named Vertiente Artiguista (Artiguist Source), list 77. They call their party "La Ve