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Argentine Lower House votes to sanction companies operating in Falklands
Argentina’s Lower House gave unanimous preliminary approval to a bill that seeks to impose sanctions on corporations operating in Argentina that may be looking to work in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands with out the approval of Argentine authorities. The bill must now be ratified by the Senate. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesA trade war ... yay, way to go........
Jun 24th, 2010 - 06:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0In 2008 the UK exports to Argentina were worth 295 million dollars.
In 2008 Argentina's exports to the UK were worth 532 million dollars.
In 2006 the UK was the 6th largest investor in Argentina with 460 million dollars.
Maybe we can do without your animal foodstuffs, wine etc. Can you do without us?
Oh no, no more Guiness!!
Jun 24th, 2010 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0A Mickey Mouse policy from a banana republic.
Jun 24th, 2010 - 08:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0What’s next?
This is the type of juvenile posturing that makes Argentina something of a laughing stock.
Jun 24th, 2010 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just imagine you are a company that has spent years building up a commercial success. What do you do when a country like this one threatens your commercial base? You move. To Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and carry on. Of course, if you're an Argentine company, it's a difficult option. Wonder how many Argentine companies will go to the wall?
Well done, go drill in the UK not in Malvinas Argentinas waters, go home to London!!! . We do not need another disaster like British Petroleum in USA.
Jun 24th, 2010 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina has descended to the level of a bandit nation. It breaches the Convention on the Law of the Sea. It attempts to exercise economic repression of a neighbouring state. It engages in attempts at anachronistic imperialist colonialism. It lies to and attempts to mislead the whole world. Are there any depths to which it will not sink.
Jun 24th, 2010 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0harrier, do not make me laugh. You , a british calling us colonial imperialist? . Does your queen write the books from you? . Read your own history, British Empire sail around the World stealing land, national treasures, enslaving millions of africans, starving millions of Irish to death, commiting atrocities like India,and in so many other nations expelling habitants like Malvinas and Chagos Islands, creating wars like Irak , based on a big lie (no WMD),and of course British Petroleum getting great deals there, with the blood of so many innocents civilians.
Jun 24th, 2010 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marco you really do come from a position of such blinding bias you would have great difficulty trying to find your way out of an empty field, let us cut out your insane ramblings and intellectually limited statements and argue down to the original point
Jun 24th, 2010 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You want to rule a neighboring country against the expressed wishes of the population, you want to exploit their resources for your own benefit desire their taxes and want to rob the south Atlantic territories of their wealth, and demand complete subjugation of the inhabitants and absolute loyalty to the Argentine state or be faced with expulsion from your own country Marco isn't that eeerm Imperialism?
PS BP doesn't have any drilling rights in Iraq.
No. There aren't any depths to which Argentina and Argentines will not sink.
Jun 24th, 2010 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Rhaurie,“doesn't have any drilling rights in Iraq.” Really?
Jun 24th, 2010 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=90253
PS Malvinas is not a country, is nowadays a British colony with a more modern name for the year 2010, that actually belongs, historically and geographically , to Argentina and South America.
I am pretty sure that all that export import between UK Argentina is intra trade from multinational company which plunder the natural resources in here. Argentina has to negociate with UK which is the country that created the problem, not with the tiny group of you, that live in the usurped island. My country complain in the same moment that uk take over on the island and rejected the argentinians inhabitants, the problem was not make now, we have to back to the situation 170 years ago. Of course like Gentleman we consider the islanders but their opinion is not crucial. I know that In your colonialist mind, it is difficult to understant but is the pure rality, and you are thinking like 200 years ago...anachonicly. The only deffence that you have is not negociate, if you are sure why not? And then of course the military arsenal....but not legally reason....
Jun 24th, 2010 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@Rhaurie-Craughwell
Jun 24th, 2010 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“neighboring country”????
You are not a country none recognize you even Britain call you overseas territory what mean somethijng different from a country.
Show me please where says that you are a country?
Yourself put in that position by saying you want to remain British and Britain is a foreigner country.
So stick with reality you will never be a country.
NicoDin. If the islanders do get this oil, and they have the money to become independant. and they do.
Jun 25th, 2010 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0How then would you claim the islands? They would by all means, be a nation.
#11 Ah, a new bpy with the usual, government sponsored, view of history..... go and read some independent research material (sorry to use the word 'independent' it's a difficult one for you!). When you get the history correct then try again!
Jun 25th, 2010 - 03:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0And I shall be bloody annoyed if our multinationals have been plundering your natural resources in such a tardy fashion! The figures favour Argentina by a quarter of a billion dollars. Someone needs to get a grip :-)
And the UK doesn't have a problem ... some neighbours in the south atlantic do, but that's their problem!
Hi Hoy,...you mean independent if is from Uk isn't? Yeah, you have particular view about freedom and independence, i know very well either my country history and uk history. And sadly I don,t received any money sponsor from my goverment to think like this...maybe you? Independent is what we got 200 years ago from eupropeans countries, all along america, but still remain some colonial territories here. And who got the independence are original aborigens, europeans descendent and mix of them....we are not exclusively europeans like the islander, and ruled by european country.
Jun 25th, 2010 - 05:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0The UK ignore a problem , but there is one......it seems that for now can ignore...
Don't you know that most trades in the world are intra companies trades? Big multinational octopus with headquarter in London for example...then just exchange natural resources for some littles works positions..
I'm posting this where I can because Marco doesn't seem to want to respond on the appropriate article.
Jun 25th, 2010 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0As I have pointed out before, although Marcos obviously can't read anything because he's desperately trying to remember what someone told him to say:
1806 and 1807 were attacks by British expeditionary forces on outposts of the Spanish Empire, at the time a puppet-state of the Napoleonic French Empire with which Britain was at war. “Argentina” didn't exist.
1845. An Anglo-French naval squadron defeated and passed an embargo put in place by Juan Manuel de Rosas, dictator of the so-called Argentine Confederation, in an attempt to stop or profit from Anglo-French trade with Argentine inland cities that de Rosas did not control.
Describe how the removal of the inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago was an “atrocity”. And Marco conveniently forgets to mention that they were removed so that the USA could build a military base. (But he wouldn't want to upset the USA that he no doubt thinks is supporting Argentina). And then the dumb-dumb goes on to quote tens of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths. The Multinational Force Iraq composed troops of 40 nations. Four of them were South American. Can he quote the sources for attributing particular numbers of deaths to British Armed Forces?
C'mon Marco, ante up. Quote your referenced sources for your comments. Or admit that you are just spouting government-inspired crap.
15 bloporta: Actually, they pretty much rule themselves.
Jun 26th, 2010 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0The only thing the UK does for the islands is Defence and foreign affairs. If they ever wanted independance they would have it.
As they say themselves, the only thing that holds them back is a belligerent neighbour with designs on their land and their resources.
Jun 26th, 2010 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@MaltidaMarcos, Blowfish, & Nicotine: Before you whine impotently about your fake neo-fascist fantasy victimhood over the Falklands, first direct your implanted Italian-Spanish attention to your own expulsion & ongoing colonial subjugation of the Mapuche peoples of Araucania and Patagonia.
Jul 03rd, 2010 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.mapuche-nation.org/english/frontpage.htm
http://www.mapuche-nation.org/english/frontpage.htm
Start at Tierra del Fuego and head towards Buenos Aires, stopping at every Mapuches, Tehuelche, Collas, Tobas, Matacos, Ona & Chiriguanos home to beg forgiveness for 500 years of theft, rape, murder & massacre of countless hundreds of thousands of their peoples on your way to return to your real homes in Europe. Given you exterminated the majority, when you violently expelled these indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands, and forcibly eradicated their culture & way of life & forcibly assimilated them into a colonial state, it should only require little more than 200 000 apologies to the few survivors of your attempted colonial genocide.
Don't forget to stop at the Falklands too, to beg forgiveness from each Islander for every day of your invasion of 1982, while you're about.
Don't be surprised if you aren't welcomed by any of these peoples & your insincere apologies scorned. Any reasonable person would find it hard to excuse, defend or forgive the crimes of your ancestors & those of the modern day Argentine Republic.
The Argentine Congressmen should be ashamed for passing repressive laws against the express declaration of 1514(XV) to cease repressive measures against the Islanders and for inciting popular bigotry & hatred of the Islanders of a vulnerable foreign ethnic minority as a pretext to abuse the Islanders human rights and attempt to annex their lands, steal their property, & subjugate them to a foreign government, culture and economic control against their legally & democratically expressed wishes.
Shame on Argentina.
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