![[flag]](../images/b/bo}mas.gif)
image by António Martins, 12 December 2017
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image by António Martins, 12 December 2017
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Morales tried to establish an own party I.P.S.P. (Instrumento
Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos). But he failed
being permitted to participate the elections for formal reasons. So he made
a deal with a conservative former General and businessman, David Añez
Pedraza, who led an unimportant party, MAS. Morales simply bought the name
and the flag and integrated his own organization into MAS. So his socialist
movement is probably the only one in the world
having a blue flag. (Source: Der Spiegel 18:2006: p.118 ff.;
photo on p.123)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 May 2006
"MAS" (from Movimento al Socialismo = Movement
towards Socialism), by the way, may be interpreted as the Spanish word
"mas", meaning "more".
António Martins, 20 December 2005
The winner of today’s Bolivian presidential election is Evo Morales
of the Movimento al Socialismo — MAS, who will be the first
Indian president of Bolivia. Many of his followers were waving the
party flag; the Indian [Qullasuyu]
flag is used a lot in there.
J. Patrick Fischer, 19 December 2005
Many of Morales’ followers were waving a blue flag with black
and white stripes at the edge. Proportions seem to be approx. 1:2. I
checked their homepage, but
wasn’t able to find information of the flag; their colours seem to
be blue, black and white.
J. Patrick Fischer, 19 December 2005
The overall ratio specs seem to be indeed 4:(1+1+4+1+1).
António Martins, 12 December 2017
The final scenes of this party
on
line animation suggest that this is indeed the flag of MAS.
António Martins, 20 December 2005
I seen this flag and I’d say it is 3:5 or 2:3, not 1:2.
António Martins, 20 December 2005
Maybe back then this was so, or I just didn’t pay enough
attention, but the MAS flags in use in recent years is definitely ~1:2;
this can be ascertained by looking at the central, blue area: In a 1:2
flag it is a square (Canadian pale flag).
António Martins, 12 December 2017
![[flag]](../images/b/bo}mas!p.gif)
image by António Martins, 12 December 2017
Even though our website correctly reported
this flag in 2005 as blue, white, and black, the textual report was
unexplainably illustrated, for 12 years, with an image showing the central
panel in purple instead.
António Martins, 12 December 2017
![[flag]](../images/b/bo}mas!b.gif)
image by António Martins, 12 December 2017
It is a blue 3-times width, — white — darkblue vertical
tricolour of unknown ratio. (Source: Der Spiegel 18:2006:
photo on p.123)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 May 2006
I think this report results from a regular flag that
had been wrapped around its staff as to hide the hoist side black and white
stripes.
António Martins, December 2017
![[flag]](../images/b/bo}mas!k.gif)
image by António Martins, 07 October 2017
This
web banner at the website of the MAS chapter in La
Paz, where a Kuntisuyu flag (yellow diagonal)
is used, blending smartly with a Bolivian national
flag.
António Martins, 07 December 2005
This interesting design is a flagoid (ersatz flag). Note that the suyu flag is cropped to 6/7ths, so that it matches with the three stripes of the flag of Bolivia. Why was the yellow-diagonal Kunti Suyu flag used, instead of the white-diagonal Qulla Suyu flag, since the latter is commonly associated with Bolivia and has indeed been meanwhile made a co-national flag? (Note how it is the latter, not the former, that shows, in toto and not as a flagoid, on the middle of the same web image.) I think the answer is two-fold:
