Mexican flag gets negative attention of protest critics

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Posted on: March 31st, 2006
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“Liu Roberto Ruiz stood on top of the alligator fountain in San Jacinto Plaza, waving a Mexican flag and shouting: “Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.”

Ruiz, 18, didn’t realize it, but people are getting bent out of shape in El Paso and across the United States because he and other student activists are parading behind the Mexican flag, wrapping themselves in the red, white and green national banner of their parents and ancestors.”

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