Scandal at the Carnival of Corrientes for the display of flags "pirate" | Chronic

A scandal of considerable importance took place in the city of Corrientes, where several British flags flamed during the pbadage of a comparsa and will be removed from the show, after a consensus reached by the leaders of the group with veterans of the war Falklands, who complained of the episode.

"After a meeting with the province's Veterans Committee, we have reached a consensus and we are going to replace the British flags with pirate flags", informed the delegate of the comparsa Arandú Beleza de Corrientes, Mario Rey

The leader met Tuesday evening with the executive committee of the Veterans Center at Malvinas de Corrientes, whose members, as well as the provincial coordinator of the centers, have publicly expressed their repudiation of the publication of the British insignia in the newspaper. parade of the official carnival.

"I would have preferred the flags to continue for artistic continuity as part of a critical performance that we are doing in the UK as a power, but with the veterans, I understood that who could affect them and I decided to remove them ", King added.

In addition, the leader of Arandú Beleza stated that "We did not take into account the fact that the change of flag could affect us in the competition with the other competitors because what these men have done for Argentina is very important".

The change of badges will take place from tonight, the second day of the show Comparsas, which takes place in the amphitheater. "Mario del Tránsito Cocomarola" and this includes dramatizing the themes chosen by each group in a musical show.

Arandú Beleza is competing in the first category with two other comparsas. In this edition of the official carnival, it represents the theme "Deliver us from all evil", in the called segment "The leaders – the powers", they represent with a negative connotation the countries that accumulate the greatest world wealth on the basis of capitalism, consumerism, greed, among other concepts.

In this way, a group of dancers inflamed the British flags, as well as other world powers, and after two weekends of parades in the corsódromo "Nolo Alias" The repudiation of several centers of veterans who rejected the use of this emblem has been affected by the capital Corrientes.