Cuban flag has five horizontal stripes of blue and white. The red triangle and white five-pointed star in the center. Flag of Puerto Rico is just the opposite.
The three blue stripes represent the three departments in which Cuba was divided at that time. The white purity, the red triangle three ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Red for the blood and the courage; the star the new state that should be added to the United States.
This confusion of flags is so common.
Who made it?
Narciso López used this flag in 1850 to carry out his attempt to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule, which resulted in failure.
On the morning of May 20, 1902, the day Cuba officially became an independent republic, Máximo Gómez had the honor of putting the flag on the flagpole of the castles of the Tres Reyes del Morro, Havana.
Finishing with this act the end of the Cuban revolution, the end of the struggle for Cuban independence.
Both the Cuban flag and the coat of arms were designed by Miguel Teurbe Tolón. The design of both specifications was established by the first President of Cuba, Tomás Estrada Palma, on April 21, 1906. It has not changed since.
Flag of Puerto Rico
López’s flag was the model for the flag of Puerto Rico adopted in 1892 by the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee, a pro-independence group that worked under the auspices of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
The adaptation of the Cuban flag with the colors inverted was suggested by the patriot Francisco Gonzalo Marín in a letter which he wrote from Jamaica.
He made the proposition to various Puerto Rican patriots during a meeting at Chimney Hall and finally, it was approved unanimously.
Who made a flag of Puerto Rico?
Antonio Vélez Alvarado was at his apartment in Manhattan. He was staring at a Cuban flag for a few minutes, and then took a look at the blank wall in which it was displayed.
Vélez suddenly perceived an optical illusion, in which he perceived the image of the Cuban flag with the colors in the flag’s triangle and stripes inverted.
Almost immediately he visited a nearby merchant from whom he bought some crepe paper to build a prototype. He later displayed his prototype at a dinner meeting at his neighbor’s house. The owner, Micaela Dalmau vda. de Carreras, had invited José Martí as a guest.
Martí was pleasantly impressed by the prototype. He made a note of it in a newspaper article published in the Cuban revolutionary newspaper.
Acceptance of the prototype was slow in coming but grew with time.
Similarly in a letter written by Maria Manuela Besosa, the daughter of the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee member Manuel Besosa.
She stated that she sewed the flag. This created a belief that her father could have been its designer. In her letter, she described the flag as one which consists of five stripes that alternate from red to white.
Even though the local newspaper “El Imparcial” on January 17, 1948, stated that Vélez Alvarado was the The Father of the Puerto Rican Flag it may never be known who really designed the current flag.
The government specifies the colors to be used but does not specify any official color tones or shades. Therefore it is not unusual to see the flag with either tone of blue in official settings in Puerto Rico.
Cuban flag is known to be used regularly in restaurants, cafes and bars who admire the Cuban culture.
Schools of dance all over the world put the flag as decoration.
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For more info about Cuban flag and it’s history check out this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Cuba