So as you know

there's the part where I talk about the small mistakes we made in the video or we talk about the things that didn't quite make

It into the video for one we accidentally said that lag credit area is about the ascension of the Virgin Mary

It's actually about the Immaculate Conception. And another thing we didn't really talk too much about the protests and the controversy going on with Nicaragua

Basically in the quickest condensed manner that I can put it in

2018 president Ortega initiated a pension and Social Security cut omits budget deficits. This angered a lot of people

In the following months there were a ton of protests

A lot of them were students crackdowns were ordered by the government people demanded removal of the president

Protesters were killed and this escalated to the crisis that we see today

It's funny because President Ortega was kind of seen as like a former hero that fought against the Somoza dynasty

That was like a dictatorship that took over for 40 years

So a lot of people kind of see this as like the same thing happening over again speaking of Ortega

He was jailed for bank robbery and then made president less than a decade after his release

He also made his wife vice president and she installed all these metal trees all over

Managua and a lot of angry people haven't been known to cut them down in protest which brings me to my next point in the

Video we did mention how it's safe to visit Nicaragua

And as of 2019 it's still

Kind of is like they still love visitors and tourists but it's just the current political atmosphere is not something you want to get involved

in like it's all internal and foreigners are not the focus like yes protests are still going on and people are leaving and mass and

Accusations against the government are a topic of daily focus

But the country is by no means closed off and isolated from the rest of the world. So it's really up to you

I mean if you want to just sip your margarita on the beach and just put on some headphones as you hear some arguing in

The background up to you and speaking of Managua

It's funny because for the longest time the capital used to switch off between Leon and Grenada

Oh and on a lighter note, Nicaragua specifically Lake Nicaragua is one of the only few places that has freshwater sharks

They actually migrate up the San Juan River like salmon and also 86 of the 88 constellations found in the night

Sky can be seen in Nicaragua. Supposedly. I've been told and yeah, that's pretty much it

So I guess that means we got to get to the flag. So without further ado you

All right, so as you know in every country episode

I always wear at least one color that can be found on the flag of the country and this episode a lot of you guys

Noticed I wore a purple beanie

I literally ran from my house to the nearest clothing shop to quickly buy this before we filmed the episode

But anyway, why purple though, I don't see any purple on the flag

Oh wait

if you look really

Close the flag is a horizontal tricolour of two blue bands on the top and bottom with white in the middle

The flag is essentially a copy of the former flag of the federal provinces of Central America except

they just changed the words on the national coat of arms to

Nicaragua pretty easy task

according to many officials the blue stands for the bicoastal nature of the country being situated between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific

Ocean as well as loyalty and the white stands for peace in the center lies the coat of arms which we will explain soon before

We do though. It's important to note that Nicaragua had a lot of other previous flags

I mean there under the Spanish Empire the first

Mexican Empire for like two years

then the whole

Federation thing where most of the Central American countries were one country at one time then they kept switching off between these blue ones

And these random yellow and beige band flags

And then one of them looked like Costa Rica

Then there was all that

Confusion when William Walker came in and he tried to take over the country and use this flag

And then the Mosquito Coast was still colonized by the British. It's confusing

But yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on in the end. They just got tired and they're just like forget it

We'll just copy the old one, but just paste Nicaragua on it done

But anyway with that being done and said now we move on to the coat of arms the coat of arms has the words

Repubblica de Nicaragua America Central around it no translation needed

I'm sure you can figure that one out in the center is a triangle signifying equality and within the triangle lies five volcanoes

between two bodies of water

symbolizing the Brotherhood of the Central American countries since they were once unified under the federal provinces of Central America in the center lies the

Phrygian cap a symbol used in many emblems to signify

liberty and freedom and

finally shielding the upper part of the triangle lies the rainbow which signifies peace and if you look really close at the rainbow you'll notice

That it contains all six hues including violet or purple

This makes Nicaragua. One of the only two full sovereign countries with purple on its flag other than Dominica. Remember El Salvador?

Nope, their rainbow stops at blue. I mean, hey if you want to change your coat of arms anytime soon

Let us know until then the purple Club only has two members now

of course throughout their history the coat of arms has kind of changed up a little bit here and there like they had you know

Many flags or weaponry or a wreath around it but more or less

It's always kind of stayed the same and that is just about it

So I guess that means there's only one thing left to do geography mail time

And actually this time we visit Keith at his place and I did not have a microphone

So the audio is gonna be a little crappy, but sorry

Whoo. All right guys. So today we are joined with Keith

All right, so we got

This much stuff and we will start you know, how we always start we start off with postcards

All right, so I just grabbed one Jade pin. All right. Hey Paul, even though I'm not Paul. I'm Keith, but

Sending you greetings from Mount Fuji while you are on your European trip. I am so pissed. I am NOT in Europe right now yours

Truly Caleb. Well, we try to do as many meetups this weekend so you can make the next one

Already we have

Valencia from Ian. Hey Barb's just went to the Las Fallas Festival in Valencia Spain. It's a really amazing event

Check it out now. So when you made me buy a pie bards, my name is Victor and come from the city of

In northern Serbia Oh Serbia right on the border with Hungary and

We have this from Marco who visited

Turkmenistan, I'm a German student from Berlin traveling through Turkmenistan by tourists by a tourist visa greetings from ash kebab

All right, here we go greetings from New York City PS. I'm going to visit LA as well in

next

Days, I'm going to visit LA as well in

Next days it

from LA to

Prove that you're from Slovenia, but you visit in New York. Okay. Hey guys. My name is Daniel. I'm from Rio de Janeiro

I'm visiting Brasilia the Brazilian capital in a world heritage by UNESCO

It's a haven for architecture lovers regards for you all

Daniel Thank You Daniel from Brazil and uh from Macomb, Michigan. My name is Nana

I've been subscribed since I think around the Honduras episode one thing I learned about Norway. Is that their?

rusev faring all the party for the

Graduation have you guys seen the Norwegian Roose parties if I'm remembering correctly?

what they do is they they ran out they get buses like Volkswagen buses or whatever and then

They deck them out and they like people spend thousands and thousands of dollars on them and they just get drunk every day

Yeah, by the way on junk now, we do not endorse underage drinking if your creation - muttering this is from Cornell leo

from

Kids on City Philippines good morning to all of you in this envelope. You will have a map of the Philippines and and the provinces

of the Philippines cool

He drew all of the island chains of the Philippines and wrote little notes on each part. Well, that's cool

I love it when you guys have like a sense of pride in where you come from

And then you want to share as much as you can. Yes. Thank you Filipinos for Jollibee Oh Mike. Yes

We got one in LA. I think - - we got you

Nathan's from Wisconsin home of good very good cheese

And they make a soup out of beer and cheese and it's very good and they make really good cheese

You had that the beer cheese soup. Yeah, of course. Ah, I've never had it. I'm gonna try it

Hello Barbie, even though I'm not Barbie and Keith. I

Live in Wisconsin and I'm hurt during this letter

I also sent me flag of Wisconsin. Basically this dudes from Wisconsin you rule. Yay

He also sent us this sick map of Madison, Wisconsin

I always say everybody in America needs at least one friend from Wisconsin

All right. We got something from Malaysia

Malaysia

I'm glad to see that your channel is doing great and many people around the globe are learning about another as you noticed I used

A set of stamps which features all the 14 states of my country. Oh, that's what this is

their

Respective coat of arms is also displayed nine of the stamps feature rural figure heads that rotate every five years that was in our video

Yeah, man. It was really fun doing the Malaysia episode and I

briefly was in

The south side of Malaysia. What was a

Johor bahru in the south of malaysia right across from Singapore. I would love to go back someday

So, thank you so much Farhad from Malaysia

We got this package from the NIC who is from Georgia the state in the USA

He says a lot watching your YouTube videos

Middle, Georgia. Hope you like it

Nice Warner Robins, Georgia size large a little too big for me. But how long can you fit it? Let's see

Warner Robins, Georgia

Well, mr. Nick man, thank you so much

Appreciate the shirt last package, man, all you all right, so we got this here package from Milwaukee inspection department

Skywest airlines Milwaukee five five five air cargo away. I think that's the inspection office boy. Thank you be in from Tennessee

I guess sir Barney. I recently visited the Cape Verde Islands

I picked you guys up some brandy distilled with ginger

It was made at a family-run place on the island of San Diego, but near the nation's capital

Proprietor pray pray pray hi. All right

Thank you so much Ian for saying this. You got us brandy from Jay Baer guys

What's gonna for a third time we had Jagran?

I do not endorse underage drinking if you are underage. Please do not drink

But we are of age so we can drink I just want to say thank you to everyone that watches Channel

You guys are awesome, by the way

Keeps a little sick right now. So yeah, so like the points are well, man

All right guys, so we're supposed to do return address contest, but I forgot to bring the bag with me. So in that case

I'm just gonna go home II do it

Alright return address contest

I put your return addresses in this bag and our whoever wins gets a jog Rafi now notepad and button. All right

So here I go just gonna pick one out

Let's see

Jonas from Poland you just won so thank everybody for watching this episode

I hope you liked it in the meantime stay tuned stay cool. You've just been flagged