MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 2002
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Wednesday, April 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Other options, please
Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle in an official visit to Brazil warned that “times have changed” and this has forced Uruguay to look for other alternatives to Mercosur.
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Wednesday, April 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Breaking News from South America.
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Wednesday, April 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Burned Guardsman re-lives Sir Galahad horror
Of all the recollections of the Falklands war, none are more poignant than those of Welsh Guardsman, Simon Weston, who re-lives the horrifying experience of being badly burned along with other guardsmen when the assault ship HMS Galahad was set ablaze by Argentine bombs at Fitzroy.
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Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine: Special ceremonies.
At the stroke of midnight ceremonies began in Buenos Aires and Ushuaia remembering the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of hostilities in the 1982 South Atlantic War.
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Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine press gives mixed coverage to the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of 1982 South Atlantic
While the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of the South Atlantic has certainly not been forgotten by the Argentine press, the coverage by local television has ranged from decidedly lukewarm to highly critical, mainly of the motivations behind the decision to try to resolve the Malvinas dispute by force.
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Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands 20th anniversary.
The 20th anniversary of the Falklands invasion has been overshadowed in the United Kingdom by the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, aged 101, which has dominated the newspapers and caused television and radio broadcasts to be comprehensively re-scheduled with hours and hours of coverage.
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Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Duhalde vindicates Malvinas claim in low-keyed address to Malvinas veterans.
President Eduardo Duhalde told thousands of South Atlantic War veterans meeting in the southern city of Ushuaia that “Argentina will recover the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands - not with war - but with work, effort and perseverance through diplomatic means.”
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Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Leftwing activists burn Union Jack and throw paint bombs at British Embassy
A group of around one hundred leftwing activists belonging to student, trade union and social movement groups last night burnt Union Jacks and threw paint bombs at the walls of the British Embassy in Buenos Aires while chanting “death to the English” and anti imperialist slogans.
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Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Still not good enough
Faced with a new IMF delegation that insists on fiscal and foreign exchange discipline, the Argentine government imposed export duties, ranging between 10 and 20%, on agricultural commodities exports.
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Monday, April 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC
No invasion commemorations in the Falklands.
During the early hours of the morning of 2 April 1982, 904 Argentine troops overwhelmed the defending 65 British Royal Marines, and raised the Argentine flag on the Falkland Islands.
