Re: Caribbean heraldry
Posted: 29 Apr 2017, 16:01
JMcMillan wrote:Chris Green wrote:Communist Cuba would favour such imagery, as the "bonnet rouge" was a French revolutionary symbol, and the fasces were borrowed by syndicalists as a symbol of strength through solidarity.
Except that the arms predate communism in Cuba by well over a century, and even at that the cap and fasces were widely used symbols of liberty and republicanism well before the French Revolution. The cap in particular appears in the arms of many South and Central American countries with no history of communist domination, from El Salvador to Argentina.
I didn't suggest that communist Cuba designed the arms, merely that they would favour such [revolutionary] imagery.