Stories for 2002 , page 61

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

Monday, April 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

Apathy and Lula lead Brazilian poll

Three presidential hopefuls from the ruling Brazilian coalition for the October election are running a tight race but only one of them could in the second round confront Luiz Igancio Lula da Silva, the opposition candidate from the Socialist Workers Party who is leading in the polls with 25,9%, according to one of the latest polls released and published in the Brazilian media.

Saturday, March 30th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

Events of April 2 as seen by an islander remembered in Argentine magazine.

In its latest issue La Primera weekly magazine carries a five page article headlined “The Argentine Invasion” in which the events of 2 April 1982 are recalled using a text and photographs from islander author and photographer Tony Chater's book “The Falkland Islands”.