The current flag is a national symbol.Obed Hernández / Unspash.
Current Mexican flag
Once the Mexican Revolution was entered, President Venustiano Carranza issued a decree in 1916 so that the shield of the trigurating army's badge It would appear again on the flag With slight modifications: an eagle watching profile with wings in attitude of attack and devouring a rattlesnake, symbol of the place where the Aztecs would found their Mexico-Tenochtitlan city.
Subsequently, before the role of Mexico as host of the XIX Olympic Games President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz proclaimed a decree in 1968 with the «Law on the characteristics and use of national shield, flag and anthem”, Which defined The definitive version of the flag That we currently.
Green, white and red, the colors of our flag.Iván Díaz / Unspash.
The colors and meaning of our flag
After various modifications over the years, The colors of the Mexican flag They are green, which symbolizes the hope of the people in the fate of their race; the white one, which symbolizes unity; and the red, symbol of the blood that spilled the heroes for the homeland.
The shield was also modified seven times, however, the current model designed by the architects Francisco Eppens Helguera and Pedro Moctezuma Infante days in 1969, symbolizes the promise that Huitzilopochtli prophesied to the Aztecs to found the city of Tenochtitlán, current Mexico City.
Thus, the Royal Posada Eagle on a cactus that emerges from a lake while devouring a snake is framed by several pencas, a bolt branch and a laurel one, forming a lower semicircle attached by ribbon divided into three stripes.
There is no doubt that, together with the national shield and anthem, The flag of Mexico is a true national symbol which represents our history as a country and identifies us to the world as one of the most beautiful in its design.