Argentine frigate expected back in Buenos Aires early January
“Once more we fulfill our promise, the Frigate is coming back,” was the first statement given by President Cristina Fernández over the ruling of the UN's International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to release the ARA Libertad frigate.
Cristina Fernandez chose Twitter to speak about the ruling that ordered the release of the impounded frigate from the Tema port in Ghana and anticipated that on Tuesday a crew travels to Ghana to bring back the Argentine navy flagship.
“Not so long ago I said that, as long as I'm the President, no vulture fund will stay with our country's sovereignty and dignity,” was the first tweet of CFK.
The Argentine president summarized the Court's decision to release the vessel and reminded that by December 22 it must have left the port.
Besides, she highlighted that the release includes the commander, the crew and the reconditioning of the vessel, and added that the country “must not offer a bail or guarantee.”
The President also detailed that the crew that currently are in Argentina will travel on Tuesday to Ghana “to bring our Libertad frigate back to our homeland.”
The vessel is expected to be back in Argentina by 9 January after a trip of 74 days, according to Defence minister Arturo Puricelli.
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Just not game I guess.... I bet that *if* she gets back to RGland she never goes OS again.
Remember that Ghana tried to move the vessel from the dock to free up the expensive docking slot and it was the Argentine crew of frigate who pulled guns on the Ghanaians to prevent that happening. So they should pay the docking bill at least from that day until the ship is released.
This whole situation is going to continue to be the gift that keeps on giving though. Does CFK think these hedge funds are simply going to go away, they are going to come back more forceful and angry than ever.
This is just the first installment of many i'm sure, i hope!
This is an issue around Ghana's neck they will be more than happy to rid themselves of...
You're absolutely right. It's a no-win from Ghana's viewpoint that they'll be happy enough to get rid of within the rule of law (kinda like the whole Assange mess between the UK, Sweden and Ecuador)
Dec 17th, 2012 - 02:15 pm
Axel, what drug are you taking??????
This whole problem was due to Moreno and Timerman, who insisted on the visit to Ghana AGAINST the advice of Puricelli and the Navy. As usual you are lapping up Camporista propaganda and regurgitating it on this thread!!!!!
Question....if MNL are vultures for trying to collect on a legally binding contract of money that was givien to argentina......what do we call argentina for taking in 100,000,000,000 in US dollars and deciding to only give back 30,000,000,000? 70,000,000,000 nicely tucked somewhere and I doubt it's with nazi nestor 2 meters in the ground.
Scumbags?
Dirtbags?
Slimebags?
Deadbeats?
Cheaters?
Thiefs?.
Financial pirates?
Or all of the above?
But first, we might have to put you in a nice place with white walls and a nice comfy coat, so you can hug yourself while the vulture's voices are in your head. The nice guys in white coats will scare the vultures away with daily doses of candy.
1. Travel Documents
All persons entering Ghana must be in possession of a valid passport or Travel Documents establishing the identity of the holder.
Travel Documents include Laisser-Passer and other travel documents issued by International Agencies recognised by the Government of Ghana.
These are:
1. ECOWAS
2. United Nations and its specialized agencies
3. The World Bank
4. African Development Bank, etc.
Where there is doubt, it should be cleared with the Ghana Immigration Service headquarters or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Accra.
2. Entry Visas
1. All foreigners entering Ghana, unless covered by para 3(1) require Entry Visas. Entry Visas must be obtained prior to arrival in Ghana and may be obtained from a Ghana Embassy, High Commission or Consulate abroad.
Where Ghana has no Consular or Diplomatic representation, an application for Entry Visa may be made to the nearest Diplomatic Mission or Consulate authorised by the Government of Ghana to act on its behalf .
“Sovereignty” fair enough. “Dignity”. Seriously? Must have lost something in translation.
1. “To not capitulate, and subsequently truckle to the Banking sector, as all nations in Europe have decided to do.” SEE ALSO: “muppet” (citizen of these nations.
Definition of DIGNITY - Marriam Webster
1: the quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed
Deadbeat debt defaulter is not in there. You live in an obscure world were being a thief and irresponsible borrower is an honor.....keep and stay in your jungle with your roach infested hospitals.
Did argentina ever lend a hand to the Phillipines in their time of need.....being the humanitarians you claim to be?
Ha, ha, ha.
See also The Mad Bitch Of Argentina!
Makes Miss Piggy look attractive.
Argentina has a policy of never sending or asking for disaster aid. Long story.
Tiny? Last I checked our economy is bigger than 183 other nations, and our territorial expansion larger than 197 other nations, and our Football World Cup more than 20 other nations.
It seems to work quite well. It stops me wasting my time reading nonsense.
Would that be because the other 183 economies pay their debts, on time and in full! just a thought!
Agentina....the new World of Financial Pirate.....their are but mere DEBT COLONISTS!!!!
Yet you are all losing against us. Haven't seen a cent, the ship is sailing away, Dec 17 and no Red Card, no patacones in the street... no peso at 14 to 1, no WTO rulings against us.
EVERY SOLITARY PREDICTION... WRONG!!!!!
Argentina the mighty:
4.bp.blogspot.com/-RIQaSwYls64/TaH-y5tJP7I/AAAAAAAAAOI/TM8DnBXmD8M/s1600/Charlie-Sheen-Winning-Poster.jpg
Hours of fun.
Everything you stated in that last post, Patacones, Devaluation, WTO rulings, I will add HYPERINFLATION and Depression will occur, It is just a matter or time. and time is on our side.
The USA is going to make an example out of Argentina. We will destroy your economy, we have done it in the past and are doing it again. All within the bounds of the laws we wrote.
My guess is that if you have not already felt the strain of the bad economy you will sometime next year. I know my RG friends are desperate to come to the USA. Desperate.
I will be excitedly watching what happens with you lose your membership in the world's financial marketplace. It has never happened before and who knows how it will shake out. It will be really fun to watch from afar.
Spin cycle: 115G
She delivered that's all there is to it, we need someone like her for 2015, maybe we can keep her, she is a great woman with more courage then most Argentines excluding the security officer that stood up to Ghana's thugs, that man should get a metal and his own ship to police the seas around Islands Malvinas Argentina. Maybe the vulture funds will finally realize that IMF kept their lunch money. Some people here come asking for money here is a link that can tell them where the money is, a catch 22, it doesn't surprise me that no court will take them as serious as corrupt regimes, since it was a corrupt regime who wrote the paper work for the original IMF loans to Argentina, it goes with the say, you can fool some people some times, but you can't full everyone all of the time.
www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
Yankee I had some back channel chatter that argentina will be suspended from the IMF AND G20 but will not officially announce until next month. Argentina is already the only G20 member not to allow regular IMF scrutiny of its state accounts.
STOP PRESS!!! The new 2 pesso coin will be available from 1/1/15!
#41 it's called : “We lost a warship without a fight and got it back in the courts” medal. 44 men on one side and on the tails.....22 couples.
multimediosprisma.com/home/2012/12/brasil-puso-su-embajada-en-ghana-a-disposicion-para-el-traslado-de-la-fragata-libertad-a-argentina/
I imagine the Paris Club will demand payment too, that will take about 1/2 of the reserves.
So what is supporting the Peso...only the full faith and credit of CFK,
Hyperinflation
#43 nothing is ever lost, time solves and vindicates all that is wrong on earth, persistence is the method and the way forward, denial can only slow the inevitable, Insecurity leads to failure and silence seals fate, get use to us Argentines we are going to be feuding tribes for a very very long time, for as long as Islas Malvinas Argentina are occupied by british illegal aliens.
Great idea! If all nations re-registered their warships in the Bahamas, nobody could shoot at each other.
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British falkland islanders. That sort of witch hunt pirat-hunter?
Argentina describes other nations as pirates yet they were born and descended from Spainish Pirates
ARGENTINA ALWAYS THE VICTIM.
If you are really living in Canada you need to go back to school and finish high school! Your English is atrocious, economic knowledge abysmal, it's actually quite shocking from someone living in North American to have such poor knowledge on just these two subjects.
Your parents should be ashamed.
#47 Unless you have support to you hunch, leave your hypothesises were they serve you best and originated, at the lab.
#53 #39 vargas is going to argentina as much as chubby chavo is doing the rumba when you get back to venezula, horizontally maybe. alex vargas is now a Candian....period. I have more time in argentina than piss hunter has ever dreamed of.
#51 if this was a British news headlines you could say that we Argentines come to victimized brits but it the opposite isn't it? I mean most Brits here have come to regurgitate the one tone ignorance held in their hallow cranium, honestly there is nothing to learn from them other then what we already know from history. Nobody here is a victim we all know who we are dealing with trust me.
www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
#53 when Argentina builds a nuclear defence program 100% made in Argentina and end the UK illegal occupation I will feel safe enough to come back home, until then you should bear with your situation, and yes I did establish that the english have no say in Argentina.
#56 sorry but I am not fond of credits, bellow is the reason why, I am much fond of knowing who received the money from those credits so they can solve the problem they created except they won't share the info, as I stated in comment #39 a catch 22.
www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
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it looks cleaner,
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still while we are on the subject of frigates / ships/
MERRY XMAS,,,HMS Edinburgh,, ]
HMS Edinburgh might be the last of the class but she remains a capable ship with a highly-trained and motivated ship’s company
The Christmas video can be viewed in full on Youtube at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEz0dfCrqaI
If you were here, your chances of getting brutally assaulted or robbed will increase, while your hard earned money is stolen from you and given to those same people.
A lot of Argentinians don't really give a damn about the Falklands. It's a small island with a just few people. We are just sad because a lot of young people died there, because insane cowards sent them to war. But, the La Campora tards can rush in on paddle boats and get blown to smithereens. At least our crime rate will drop.
Aeroilines Argentines being bancrupt and nationalised by your devine leader SS Hitler Crstina and unable to fly over seas without paying for fuel UPFRONT as nothing to do with the IMF it as more to do with that pensioner younger sister of SS Hitler Crstina x flight attendent Alicia Castro who was recoreded as often stealing the duty free when she work for them. Are you not embarrassed that your national airline is bust and no one will fill there planes up without $$$$$$ up front thats why olds Crissy could not send one of there flights to Ghana
The story of the K's will be the relationship between her and Nestor. Not a love story in the last decade of their marriage and a power struggle from the start.
CFK is certifiably insane.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if we end up revoking Argentina's embassy status in the near future.
Do you envision any political change (positive for the majority of Argentine citizens and for the rest of the world?)n being produced in the next few months thanks to the recent street protests?
And for the fanatic Kirchnerists: do not hurry, take it easy ... the last hundreds or so times international or foreign judges of your choice ruled that Argentina shall forthwith and unconditionally pay our money back ... well ... that “forthwith” proved to mean in Argentina something longer than in Europe or North America ;-)
Who knows the meaning of “forthwith” in Ghana ????
Who knows ...
“...
How'dja like to spend Chrismas in Tema port?
How'dja like to spend the holiday away across the sea?
How'dja like to spend Christmas in Tema port?
How'dja like to hang a stocking on a great big coconut tree?
...”
I am serious though, it feels like we are about to pull the plug on their embassy.
I think they're one stunt away from becoming persona non grata.
Meanwhile, the Vultures will be going at each others throats in the coming days.
I think you set your standards far too low.
An Argentina ship will be returning to an Argentina port
But only after a costly, confusing and needless event.
Is that a celebratory experience?
That “old rust bucket” ARA Libertad is not “mine”, it belongs to the Argentine people. It is the one of many great sail training ships operated by the Navies of the Americas. Of all of those ships, it is the only one built in the Americas, including my country the USA. It holds numerous sailing awards. It was the first ship that started construction in the first shipyard in Latin America, the Rio Santiago shipyard, inaugurated in 1953 by President Juan Peron. It is still one of the worlds largest and contains the largest machine shop in Latin America, including Brazil and many European nations. The ships first ribbet was installed by President Peron on the hull of this ship on inauguration day. The ship was built to serve as a school ship and an embassador of good will. Engineers and Navy Cadets participated in its design and construction.
That “old rust bucket” General Belgrano is one of the great ships operated by my contry the USA in WWII. It was named the USS Phoenix and it was one of the few survivors of Pearl Harbor attack. Its AA guns defended the Harbor and later sailed safely out to sea to enter the war as one of the US Navies most decorated ships for its actions during the war. Sadly it fell victim to a cowardly attack by a demented leader and nation in decline seeking to relive the glories of its past by occupying lands that don't belong to it. Would you like some vaseline to relieve the pain?
The Belgrano was born a great ship as the Phoenix and died as a great ship, as it would have if it had sufferd the same fate in WWII. Fortunately it did not. It was attacked by order of the Evil Empires leadership while heading towards harbor when there were signs of an impending halt to hostilities. Obviously can't take a beating of the facts. I will inform you, sir, that there are many here in the USA that support Cristina and would give much to have Obama with equivalent Balls to her Ovaries. I did live in Argentina and learned much about it. They do have their problems, like any other nation, but there are many more pluses to their society than minuses. Most of you Brit IDIOT Turnips have never been there and only talk out of your as--s based on what you read in the Merco-Clarin-Press like publications.
I was born in the USA and live in the USA. I am dealing with our problems and our financial crisis.
Bullshit, the Belgrano was part of a two pronged attack on the British task force, she was withdrawing because your carrier could not lauch her aircraft as part of that attack. Even her Captain acknowledged the attack on her was legitimate.
Your fleet withdrew back to port and never came out again, which is just as well, because there was a second SSB stationed to the north of the British battle group and your carrier could easily have shared the same fate.
Evil Empire my ass, you pulled the Lions tail and it turned round and bit your head off. You'll think twice before pulling the same stunt again, stick to the minors and let the real teams play in the major leagues!
You are about a North American citizen of the USA as much snow falls in Puerto Iguazu in the winter. You may be living in the USA, perhaps on an over extended passport, but you fail in speaking anything like an American.
There is not one natural born American citizen that I have ever come across in my travels of both business and pleasure that is no a total supporter of the UK and feels that they a the USA's only natural and ongoing supporter and brother. So stop being embarrassed about being and Argentine and get over it and stop calling yourself a citizen of the USA. Be proud of being an Argentine outcast.
And all Argentinian airline's planes will be designated as warplanes or will be given a non-Argentinian statement of ownership - perhaps some little island off Antarctica.
But wait ... surely Argentina trades in things that those owed money by Argentina can appropriate 'in lieu'. Oil? Gas? Or will all produced be used within the borders?
Argentina is beginning to feel as if it is surrounded by a hostile world
... I wonder if this is what Paraguay feels like.
What gets me also is these Argies winge on about Thatcher saying she went to war to save her own back, well like ANY British Prime Minister would do she reacted when British People and interest were threatened that's why you would not try it again FACT.
What suprised me then and still suprises me today, is they did not expect that response and have been playing the victim ever since.
I MEAN, IT'S NOT LIKE THE BRITISH HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE IN FIGHTING WARS, IS IT?????????????
Idiots, a child could have told them what was going to happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 18th, 2012 - 03:06 am
It is a shame that you are so ashamed of being Argentine that you have to hide behind a faux North American persona.
You should be proud to be Argentine, there is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, except that we have a corrupt and criminal government overseen by a thoroughly avaricious and criminal woman.
Other than that humilliation we have a lot to be proud of, we have some of the most beautiful country in the world and some really super people. Unfortunately we also have growing inflation, growing poverty, growing street crime, destroyed infrastructure, destroyed economy, unbeleivably corrupt government, but apart from that life here in Argentina is pretty damned good!!!!!
“that man should get a metal and his own ship to police the seas around Islands Malvinas Argentina”
Thinking of joining the Belgrano is he?
Divert distract lie, your Brownshirt motto
www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
Why do you keep posting the link to that nutcase.
He's a few cans short of a 24 pack from what I have read, do you believe his fantasies?
Ah, I see a weakness in my argument - I wonder if you can detect it! Ha, ha, ha.
BTW keep dodging the DHS in Canada, they will catch up with you next year.
DHS tap your phone yet? Hack your PC? Those previous posts of terrorism and nuclear bombs were threatening.
At least they aren't scrap metal merchants, Britworker @8. Then the Ghanaians would have something to worry about.
If you think she has a far away look on her face, you should see Maximo, keep it in the family, that's what they say.
You can ignore as much as you like the fact that the chancery had warned puricelli about what i said in my commment 14, that's your problem. On the other hand, i am not from la campora, i belong to movimiento evita since two months ago, anyway in case i belong to that organization or to any other, it doen'st mean that i can't think, nobodoy tells me what to think or to say, in fact, i have said in planty of oportunities that allthough i support c. f. k's government, i have always recognized also that her government has controversies and negative aspects, because i'm not an injudicious as you are. I want to tell you something, and i hope this is the first and the last time i tell it to you, if somebody doesn't have enough intellectual honesty when he wants to discuss about something so complicated like politic issues, then he can't debate about it. Most your answers are really so shanmefull and pathetic, the fact that you don't agree with most c. f. k's policies, it doens't mean that you have to buy so easily the distortions and the lies of the most reactionary newspapers that are against her government. Beside, why dont you propose different ideas for the country, or why dont you join some politic organization that represents your ideas?. If i decided to start being an activist, it's because despite some controversies of c. f. k's government, according to my ideologies, it is the best government after a great president like arturo illia, and i will continue defending it, and claiming for what the gov. hasn't done yet, like the right to a legal abortion for amy the women, a better transportaton sistem, because some lines of trains are a disaster, more transparency in her administration etc etc. If your arguments are, kretina kretina kretina, or the distortions of the reactionary press, then i understand why you have such a low level of debate.
Ha, ha, ha. You pompous idiot.
You write in a monolithic style, devoid of any logical breaks in this rant and accuse Simon68 of all manner of ludicrous character defects.
Threatening him with stupid, inane comments about TMBOA (and, dummy, that is The_Mad_Bitch_Of_Argentina, your beloved botox faced harridan) just confirms your utter lack of intellect.
Next time you want to work yourself up into a foaming mouth rant, try sucking on your boyfriends penis and calm down.
Understand now?
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
#105 I like the sound of this moviemento evita, are there any links where I can find out more?
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