The Aerolineas strike, which began on the last Tuesday, grounding all of Aerolineas and AUSTRAL's flights, continue at press time with no immediate sign of a solution
It is now 18 months since the Argentine Government last communicated with the Falkland Islands Government over a proposed permanent War Memorial that is to be sighted in the Argentine War Cemetery at Darwin, some 60 miles from the capital Port Stanley
Back in 1983, when I was the FT's Buenos Aires correspondent, I wrote about my 14,000-mile journey to the Falkland Islands, two ways across the Atlantic, via the RAF base of Brize Norton in Oxfordshire via Dakar, Ascension Island, and an unscheduled emergency landing in southern Brazil.
An eccentric amateur explorer who claimed to have discovered the true source of the River Amazon, Sebastian Snow, has died in England, aged 72.