Venezuela's Chavez Remaking Flag; National Symbols Are Being Revised As Part of Leftist Revolution

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › January 21, 2006

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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a penchant for changing symbols - he's renamed Congress, the Supreme Court and the country itself since taking power.

Now his congressional allies are adding an eighth star to the flag of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. They're also remaking its coat of arms so that a horse will appear galloping left, not right - a not-so-subtle metaphor for Chavez's politics.

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Venezuela's Chavez Remaking Flag; National Symbols Are Being Revised As Part of Leftist Revolution

It's all part of what Chavez calls his "Bolivarian Revolution," named after South American independ...

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