What Does The Mexican Flag Represent?

The Mexican Flag comprises three vertical stripes of Green, White and Red with the coat of arms of Mexico in the center. The coat of arms depicts an Eagle with a serpent clutched in its talons and beak, perched on a cactus tree rising from the earth and overlooking a body of water.

The stripes of the Mexican flag have changed often and so has the meaning associated with them. The current colours represent hope, unity and blood of Mexico's national heroes in the stripes of Green, White and Red respectively. Earlier still they referred to Independence from Spain, the Roman Catholic faith, and Union between Europe and America.

The symbol on the coat of arms is derived from an Aztec legend, where a heathen God directed a nomadic tribe to settle where they saw an Eagle devouring a snake.  

Green hope
red blood
white unity

Mexico's flag as it is today was adopted in 1968, though a very similar flag had been in use since 1821. Originally the green represented independence, white represented religion and red the union of Americans and Europeans, but during the secularization of the country under President Benito Juarez (president of Mexico from 1858 to 1872) the meanings of the colors were adapted to represent hope (green), unity (white) and the blood of the national heroes (red).





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Green, Grass
Red, Blood
white, Snow