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South America’s main naval show takes off in Chile; HMS Gloucester present
With the participation of delegations from 34 countries South America’s largest naval exposition was officially opened Tuesday in Valaparaíso. The seventh edition of ExpoNaval is scheduled to last until next Friday with business deals reaching 600 million US dollars according to the organizers. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGood to see HMS Gloucester waving the flag - presumably its not an 'illegal Falklands flag' :-)
Dec 01st, 2010 - 07:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0p.s. did the Chilean government keep that decision quiet ?
HMS Gloucester has been busy latly, lol.
Dec 01st, 2010 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wheres Think when you want him :-)))))))))))))
Dec 01st, 2010 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be”
Dec 01st, 2010 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers
Welcome to all the participants at the Chilean Exponaval, including HMS Gloucester representing not only the UK, but the Falklands Islands.
Dec 01st, 2010 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good luck for all.
I thought that Twinky told us, quite authoritatively, that HMS Gloucester wouldn't be appearing. Could that have been a mistake? Might it be that Chile has more time for the Royal Navy than some “mad cow” in the Casa Rosada?
Dec 01st, 2010 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ Might it be that Chile has more time for the Royal Navy than some “mad cow” in the Casa Rosada?” And why should President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner have time for the Royal Navy? Piñera is a Pinochetist, Pinochetists always have time for the Royal Navy. Why are you surprised? And don't get all puffed up, in Chile, there are thousands of people who dislike President Piñera and don't forget what this pitiful maggot did in the past. But I don't understand why you think that this “South America’s main naval show takes off in Chile; HMS Gloucester present” tells something about President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner? Anyway, even though Chile is in South America, they've never felt South Americans, you can't change that, but they try it, it's some kind of shame, and the need for approval from the UK telling they're doing fine.
Dec 01st, 2010 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chile is in South America, they've never felt South Americans, you can't change that, but they try it,
Dec 01st, 2010 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dont trash talk your country xbox
stick up your junta what I said about Piñera is true, he was, he is and he will be a Pinochetist that's why he supports this:
Dec 01st, 2010 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://lo-de-alla.org/2010/11/chile-defense-minister-defends-sending-soldiers-to-school-of-the-americas/
Looks like Chile has decided that the UK armed forces have a lot to offer and are happy for the defenders of the Falkland Islands to call in and say hi! Think does get ahead of himself occasionally but we forgive you Think.
Dec 01st, 2010 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No doubt Nico is of the impression that the Argentine armed force have much more to show and offer than the UK. Funny in the head that guy; bit like his loony, authoritarian president!
10 Beef , “Looks like Chile has decided that the UK armed forces have a lot to offer”
Dec 01st, 2010 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cocaine?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/30/royal-navy-cocaine-yacht-atlantic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/30/royal-navy-cocaine-yacht-atlantic
It's called 'living off the land' MoreCrap :-))
Dec 01st, 2010 - 11:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7 I thought the “mad cow” in the Casa Rosada was insistent that no South American country would have anything to do with Britain.
Dec 02nd, 2010 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Except for Brazil that has a defence agreement. Or Chile that invites the Royal Navy to South America's main naval show.
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