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Posted on: October 9th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Art y Culture ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Arizona ]
“Here in the Old Pueblo, Mexican flags are ubiquitous. As they should be. Mexico’s our neighbor and the flag once flew over Tucson. To most people, el tri color, as Mexicans refer to the red, green and white flag, blends into the landscape like the saguaros and mesquite trees.
But apparently the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum does not like the look of the red, green and white flag with the serpent and eagle fluttering alongside the red, white and blue stars and stripes. After more than 50 years, the Mexican flag was lowered and removed today. The museum’s board of directors voted last month to remove the flag because “the museum received complaints about the flag as many as two or three times a week,” museum spokesman Tim Vimmerstedt told my colleague Dale Quinn.”
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