Brilliant, yet tragic.

Via News Designer, these infographics using national flags to illustrate disturbing trends in that country. It's in Portuguese, but if you have studied Spanish you should be able to figure it out. They're all very powerful: Somalia's deals with female mutilation, while Brasil's illustrates utter poverty and Angola's delivers a devastating image of disease in that country. Leave a comment if you can't figure out what the graphic refers to; I figured them all out without using a translator. I mean not to brag or anything...