Chilean community in Falklands plan to write a letter to President Piñera
After a successful turnout and demonstration last week, the Chilean community in the Falkland Islands will be deciding this week on addressing letters to President Sebastian Piñera and President of the Senate, Guillermo Guiralde to tell them that in the Islands there is also a piece of Chile.
Last week members of the Chilean community rallied on the Stanley sea-front to send a message to President Piñera and the Chilean people, and to expose recent threats by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez to refuse airspace to the weekly LAN flight to the Falkland Islands from Santiago.
For the 250 strong Chilean community, the flight is their only viable link with home and losing it will leave them stranded far from home.
“It is not a protest”, emphasized Antoine Daille, one of the principle organizers, “it is a statement, a request to our President that he listen to and support the 250 Chileans living in the Falkland Islands. He is dealing with Argentina without taking us into account and we are worried about the threats that have been made to cut the LAN flights.”
Fernanda Tapia and Jenny Sanchez, two Chileans who have lived in the Falklands for many years and consider the Falklands to be their home as much as Chile, said “we want the Chilean Government to remember that there is a piece of Chile here in the Islands….the problems Great Britain and Argentina have are issues between them, we are for the Falklands and Falkland Islanders and for what they want.”
However not all Chileans were in favor of the rally and declined to take part. “One or two local people were quite angry with us too” said Daille. “They think that if we make an issue of the threats to the LAN flight, it will be more likely to happen. But we have had lots of support from everyone as well, Chileans and locals: all the Chileans in Camp have phoned us to offer their support.”
The Chilean community in the Falklands has long established links Punta Arenas and represents almost 10% of the total Islands population.
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When President Pinera travelled to Europe he was welcomed with respect.
When CFK goes outside the locality world leaders say 'oh not bloody moaning woman again '.
Nitro please come to the Falklands, you want our land come here ya wee boy, lets see what you got. Or do you expect others to do your fighting?
Bessies the lot of ya!
Just think odds of 3000 to 40 million ,and the 40 million are going
round the world crying on peoples shoulders and asking for
reinforcements.
Reading the ordinary bloggers in Uruguay and Chile you can see that,
no matter what the politicos say ,there is a growing admiration for the
islanders putting up two fingers to the Argies . Who knows it may be
catching and have started a trend in the region.
Whatever various devious politicians in Britain may have been up to in
the past with their proposed 'dirty deals' there is cast iron support for the
islanders.
The more the Argies huff and puff the more the support grows along with
the contempt for Argentina.
you can always go to the malvinas,
Helber Galarga
swears by it,
How old are you? 6?
we dont know, but he still plays with the barbie dolls
Here is a film all the nationalist children of Argentina should watch. It should be compulsory education in Argentine schools to learn about their country recent history, instead of teaching lies about the Falkland Islands (the imaginary Malvinas - which Argentina has NEVER had sovereignty over).
That something like this was allowed to happen is a crime against humanity, 50,000-100,000 raped, tortured, mutilated, murdered and disappeared (Borges). Unborn babies ripped out of their mothers wombs, young children taken from their parents, who were murdered by the heroic Argentine military.
Anyone of you born in the 70's? I hope your lucky enough to know who your real parents are...
The Official Story / La historia official
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LF5II0wIY
It's a film everyone should watch. Feel shame because the specter of fascism still grips Argentina and as Martino Moreno said “If publishing the truth is forbidden, then lies, ignorance and poverty will follow”.
Argentina's history is still being written by Moreno's assassins.
Hey ho :-)
Thank God
“Britain's military is depleted by cuts – so childish insults and occasional royal dispatches will have to suffice as foreign policy”
“If my mother were in the business of geopolitical conflict resolution, let me tell you right now that NONE OF THEM would be playing with the Falkland Islands after the way they've all behaved. Each of them would be having a long hard think in their rooms about whether it was honestly worth being that babyish”
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/10/falklands-fuss-petty-british-william-waving?intcmp=239
You keep digging up the past, I personally don't see the need to dig up the past when people write!!! British Pirates, Oh The London riots last year “ out of control country ” Oh the Dirty war in Argentina “ The cruelty ”! No one here can rightly say that any country is perfect and to a certain extent all have blood on there hands at some point in their history. but anyway to a more meanful point CFK is trying to claim for an lsland and its in their constitution to try claim for the island, dont you see that looks like colonialism and despite the history of who has the full rights, before you think about that, I like to remind you we live in the present not the past.
Not sure if I am mistaken, but isn't this community already bigger than any Argie ever was on the Islands??? :D
Can we raise a claim now??
Kidding...
22 Beef.... what are they going to do with the falklands pounds.... maybe playing “the monopoly game”...
Hey, ho Captain Jack Meet me down by the railroad .... ??
Bring me back memories Red ! :-))
speak of the laziness of the Argentinos.... really? I would suggest for you to shut the f** up. We excelled overseas, nobody here (where I live) make less than 250k a year but when it comes to the “chilenos”, those are the ones that cut my grass every Sunday.
man, really?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Argentina
deila.dickinson.edu/patagonia/newsite/es/museo/migracion/Chilean_migration/index.html
there are almost half million chileans in argentine territory, and not only their lower classes like you have in the malvinas or we employ in the patagonia, the argentineans national universitys around the country are FULL of chileans, i can tell you by my own experience, i'm an architecture student from the UBA and chileans make a pretty big number. Chile is a neo liberal state, is awesome for the money people that represents the 1% of the population that lives in european standars, but the rest of the chilean people can't even buy a beef. really man, hate argentina whatever you like but we have more social inclussion that the US and even the poorest boy can you to college, get's free health care and haves guaranteed a proper nutrition by “universal assignation per child ”
“posta” we have a lot of shitty things but our brother chile country, with its liberal piñeyra as president is doing really really worse and for your education, chilean people will allways back our country , if you don't know JOSE DE SAN MARTIN an ARGENTINEAN , liberate chile from the spaniards, yep their father of the nation is argentinean, so please, read a little more of south american history...coz you're part of it!
see ya “chey”
ARGENTINA - BRASIL - VENEZUELA
Kelpers: You are there, always in a cold and far place...You will be there always alone..your faces are terrible.. learn to be nice, happy...
Regards to everyone. Juan Pablo - Buenos Aires
I made a comment on “ we are all lazy” Fuck face !!
Juan Pablo - Buenos Aires
What the F !!
How may of your Pesos are you currently allowed to exchange for a currency worth having?
Behind there backs you intimidate threaten , abuse , and tell abhorrent lies,
To the world , you claim to be the innocent victim,
But behind there backs, you hurt the islanders, you blockade them , and now want to stop the last flights,
For a country that wants only peace,
You seem pretty determined to drag yourselves to conflict,
The old dictatorship is hard to leave behind, is it not ?
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