MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Malvinas events overshadowed by Royal Wedding, complains Argentine minister
Argentine Defence Secretary Arturo Puricelli said he was disappointed with the “excessive coverage” granted by the Argentine media to the Royal Wedding and regretted so little attention was given to the commemoration of Malvinas conflict events. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules““It’s important for the Argentines not to fall to that submissive colonialist spirit of some of the media” that seem to forget that Malvinas is a national cause and not an issue limited to the Armed Forces.” blatant stupidity.
May 06th, 2011 - 06:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0““Malvinas is a national cause and merited better coverage in the Argentine media of those special commemorations”, emphasized the Defence minister.” are you sure Puricelli?
“Behind an alleged social event, “there was a clear political message masked by the occasion.” sure! d'you see what I was saying about brainwashing?
Another nail in Argentina's coffin in the South Atlantic.
May 06th, 2011 - 07:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Seriously, grow up, you're making yourselves look stupid.
Ahhh didums! You Argies appear to love us really. Can't seam to get enough our our Royal Family and history.
May 06th, 2011 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the newspapers and television are more in tune with the feelings of the Argentine people than the politicians ??
May 06th, 2011 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0This cant be right, we was assured no one in Argentina watched the wedding...right...?
May 06th, 2011 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Everybody is out to get the Argies,that bastard bin laden is in on it,burying news about the “Malvinas”
May 06th, 2011 - 09:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just another example of Argentine jealousy. Their politicians can't stand the fact that their people where more interested in the Royal Wedding than they are in the lives of Argentine politicians/shenanigans.
May 06th, 2011 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is this guy taking the medication that CFK should be taking or should he also be carted away to the funny farm?
My friends in Argentina were texting me all through the wedding coverage with questions, so I guess they interested. Same with my friends in Chile. If I am honest I was surprised that they were so enthusiastic about it. Just sayin'.
May 06th, 2011 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0He can rest assured that there were no hidden messages in the wedding to afflict his paranoid brain.
May 06th, 2011 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Falklands are simply not a news story in the UK.
If he wants to get some attention he should fire off a few missiles - or at least do something marginally more interesting than just having a moan.
“the London press announced that the young pilot would be coming to Argentina for a ten weeks training course next September”. .....
May 06th, 2011 - 10:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Argentine airforce cant afford any fuel,never mind training.
“the protest is the standing claim which Argentina makes in every possible forum of the illegitimate usurpation of the Malvinas Islands”. Hey Mr Puricelli , Thats what Argentina tried in 1982 and we notice you dont say excactly what this was because your story always falls down at the first fence !
-> Falklands -> Royal Wedding -> bin Laden -> Commodity prices slump ->
May 06th, 2011 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is the flow of news.
Conspiracies? I don't think so.
Don't worry Sr Puricelli, there will be plenty of time for commemoration and celebration on 14th June.
May 06th, 2011 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0typical Argentina, way out of touch with its own people, and acting like a spoilt child over our royal couple,, perhaps if Argentina had a royal couple she would not be so arrogant, but instead have a corrupt government, to try and deprive their own people a little bit of pleasure in watching the wedding , instead of giving them more time to make an even more fools of themselves, with the millions of argentine people watching the wedding, and the argy government upset, just goes to show you all, how out of touch the governments is from its own people,
May 06th, 2011 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0err diddum’s, and prince William is coming south to rub your noses in it, , oh to be British, sad to be argentine mmmmmmm
There will be no formal protest if the Prince comes, “the protest is the standing claim which Argentina makes in every possible forum of the illegitimate usurpation of the Malvinas Islands”.
May 06th, 2011 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Except for one. Why does Argentina always avoid the International Court of Justice?
Most Argentines were more interested in the football world cup in 1982 than they were in their returning soldiers. Many felt shunned and isolated by the reception they got.
May 06th, 2011 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Falklands issue is just an Argentine governments political tool - nothing more.
@15 ...The Falklands issue is just an Argentine governments political tool - nothing more....
May 06th, 2011 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and please don't forget to send more Generals to jail !!
#15
May 06th, 2011 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”The Falklands issue is just an Argentine governments political tool'
Yes, and the way they teach history in the schools here is raising a new generation to be -their political tool on the subject of the Falklands.
A bit of royal trivia. Both Prince Wiliam and his new wife spent part of their gap* year in Chile. Not at the same time but a few months apart.
May 06th, 2011 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*A gap year is a year between formal schooling and university when a student travels, works and does volunteering.
we have been warned
May 06th, 2011 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.phoenixthinktank.org/?p=546
but will we ever learn ??
These are facts:
May 06th, 2011 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 01- Malvinas is part of Argentina and South America not Britain nor Europe 8000 miles away.
2-British are not hated in Argentina. Many Argentineans can trace their ancestry back to one or more of these“creatures”, and many British citizens enjoy to live in our country.
3.Argentinean media and people in general loves to watch the Circus Soleil, Moscow ..and the “Royal wedding” with their stupid hats and the beautiful Pippa's rear end, we love to laugh at all of them.
4-At least we didn't put Kate and that horseface prince in a mail stamp like their sheep colony in Malvinas did.
They love licking the boots of their inbred royal.. and stamps :-)
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/05/06/falkland-islands-issue-special-stamp-to-commemorate-the-royal-wedding
These are facts
May 06th, 2011 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0malvinas does not exist.
and the falklands are british, for the time being ?
the british are proberbly more populer in argentina that the argentine goverment [odd]
and argentina needs to grow up,
but as you intend to come back and try again, why should you grow up,
if the UK is not willing to put you in your place, then no one else will,
was it not the conservatives in power at the first falklands war,,,is it not the same party in power today, and again stripping our defences,
[sooner or later you will try again]
and a lot of people may very well end up shamfully insulted,
[just an opinion]
21 “proberbly more populer” ??
May 06th, 2011 - 03:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mmmmmm interesting
May 06th, 2011 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@21 “ ...An order for up to 128 F-15C and F-15E Strike Eagle fighters has been made from the USA with delivery due to begin in the 2017/18 timeframe ....” This info is not true at all !! Do you think that Cristina wants to rebuild the Armed Forces??? The concept is hilarious !! No way Briton
May 06th, 2011 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ ...An order for up to 128 F-15C and F-15E Strike Eagle fighters has been made . . .”
May 06th, 2011 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is a hell of a specification of thermal operating range when mostly they will be flying at below O Celsius.
;-)
Well the only way to be sure I suppose, is to look at an argentine military site or the government site, and see if it is true,
May 06th, 2011 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0After all it may we be in all our interests,
If it’s not true, then at least we will know
But if it’s true.
Then the inevitable will almost certainly happen at some time,
It’s an interesting thought,..
@ 26 brother! you cost me 5 long distance phone calls to verify that shit ...... you owe me money!!
May 06th, 2011 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0sorry
May 06th, 2011 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0then i take it
it is not true.
then these people should not realy be allowed to state, what is not true. ??
to be honest , it would be nice to buy toys again BUT Cristina hates us so much that as long as she is in power , is not going to happen. JMO
May 06th, 2011 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Just grow-up”! He is acting as if stupidy were a virtue! More people in Argentina are realising ....they have better things to do rather than jump on the band-wagon and wave the flag!
May 06th, 2011 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If he is Defence Minister, he should put more effort in re-furbushing the Air Force......
Blimey, that's definately the sound of a barrel being scraped by the Arge defense minister.
May 06th, 2011 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So what's he going to do about it? turn back time and persuede them to call off the wedding? PMSL.
This is typical Argentine government beheviour, after the event winge about something you can do absolutely nothing about because then no one can expect you to get of your lazy arses to take action.
(29)
May 06th, 2011 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cristina & Co. doesn't hate you at all.............. but She knows you.
As long as Democracy rules Argentina, the metamorphosis from Armed Farces into Armed Forces will continue.
Get use to it................
(and shave that ugly moustache)
to #29 artillero601; Yes, your correct...just remember ....Valkyrie!...
May 06th, 2011 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 33 ....jajajajaja!!!! Si Stauffenberg viviera !! que lo pario ....
May 06th, 2011 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 020 Marcos Alejandro
May 06th, 2011 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0''2-British are not hated in Argentina''
That may well be true, but the fact remains that the Argentines are pretty much entirely hated in the Falkland Islands. And that is the part that matters. And as long as you carry on treating us the way you do, that's how things will remain.
@35 Monty69,Quite true, next l suppose they'll ask us why.
May 07th, 2011 - 05:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0An order for up to 128 F-15C and F-15E Strike Eagle fighters has been made . . .”
May 07th, 2011 - 08:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Their defense minister stated a few months ago, that they only had enough ammunition for a 2 hour battle !!! so buying the tyres for one aircraft is pure Enid Blyton !
Viscount Falkland:
May 07th, 2011 - 12:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Aye. The price of 128 of these aircraft is about three to four billion depending on how many type E's they pick.
artillero601
May 07th, 2011 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.clarin.com/politica/Causa-ESMA-Gobierno-Astiz-Acosta_0_476352517.html
Marquitos ....here we go :
May 08th, 2011 - 02:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://youtu.be/jPg2UqKFt5A
I guess the Argentine tv companies know there are much higher ratings in broadcasting the royal wedding than in going over endless repeats of the start of a glorious, sorry, pathetic failure. If he is the minister for defense then maybe he should be sacked as he is a bit of a joke for coming out with comments like that.
May 08th, 2011 - 07:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I was surprissed by the media coverage of the wedding in argentina,the rating was higher then when the president speaks “en cadena” ,or a football match boca-river.
May 08th, 2011 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This shows that there is a small minority in argentina whio cares about the falklands and many people told me in private that they dont care about the islands and the falklanders can have them.The only thing is they cant tell this in public because they will get trouble,although some letters to editors were published in the newspapers reflecting this and nobody answered in anger.
expat, ,many people told me in pribate from UK that they think uk government should to give back malvians to argentina but they cant say that in public because they will get in troubles xD dont make laught even brits can invented something better LOL
May 09th, 2011 - 12:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0let me guess, british are still investigating if royal family has blue blood... jajaj
besides, you write like the sensationalist newspapers, saying opinions but no names no fount, if you believe things like “the Sun” then how easy is to controlled you
LOL as if you needed to look at the Argentine media to figure that out, you just have to read some of the reports in mercopress, nothing new here, just some Argentine politician in a bubble of ignorance, british pirats spew feces everytime they open their mouth.
May 09th, 2011 - 06:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think you will find that the majority of Argentines have far greater concerns than the Falklands and it is simply a way for the government to control the minds of the poorly educated. I think it is probably fair to say that any well educated Argentine (there are a few I believe just rare to get one on here) couldn't care less about the Falklands unless of course there is political or financial (the two usually come hand in hand) motivation to do so. lol
May 09th, 2011 - 06:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0british pirats spew feces everytime they open their mouth.
May 09th, 2011 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0tut tut you forgot to say English,how will you become a fully paid up Malvinist if you commit such school boy error like that
@39 ..In this video , one of yours, Enrique Gorriaran Merlo talking about “La Tablada”.... nice try Marcos!! please try again!!
May 09th, 2011 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://youtu.be/SdWG4AMTWIA
47, When did I say that I like him?
May 09th, 2011 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Young Marcos.................
May 09th, 2011 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Artillero601 is very “Old School”............
If you are not 100%with them you are against them.
If you are against them, you are a communist.
If you are a communist you must die.
@49 If you are a communist you must die.......
May 09th, 2011 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not true ! you can live in Europe under a fake passport or identity under the “ Missing category” !!!!!!!!!!!
49 Think, So true...not than young thought :-)
May 09th, 2011 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6V1DSAbv2s&feature=related
(50) artillero601
May 09th, 2011 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYfKv8K0qT8&feature=related
Ps:
(51) Marcos…….
Casi se me pianta un lagrimón de la nostalgia por el video tuyo de la ”Revista Dislocada”
Comicos y Gorilas……………… eran los de antes……….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYfKv8K0qT8&feature=related
52 Think, I don't remember about that magazine, very interesting article thought.
May 09th, 2011 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I found that video accidentally, thanks to one posted by one gorilla above(astillero 61)
I Laughed my butt off when I heard that song.
@53 Gorilla me?
May 09th, 2011 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why? Didn't you recognize yourself in that music video from radio Splendid?
May 09th, 2011 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6V1DSAbv2s&feature=related
this is one is much better!!
May 09th, 2011 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://youtu.be/4bAW7vkI6X0
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
May 09th, 2011 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I see Marcos still struggles to grasp the meaning of an Overseas Territory, a Constitutional Monarch and still believes the myth of the UN denying the Falkland Islands self-determination, which he hasnt proved! There is no point in trying to explain the above, because for 18 months people have been trying to explain the facts behind all of this, but he fails time and time again to understand. Ignorance is bliss! The Islanders will just keep sticking to the facts.
May 09th, 2011 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think anybody on this site can claim 'ignorance' (#58).
May 10th, 2011 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Posters are all avid absorbers of the minutae of everbody's arguments.
It's just that, having absorbed the arguments, some prefer a different social and mental-construct than others.
And even if the Falkland/Malvenas issue went to the ICJ and a result arbitrated and fixed in international law, the same mental-construct would remain - but with further beliefs of 'injustice'.
Firmly held beliefs, especially those underpinned by a sense of injustice, are always more powerfully fixed in the psyche than the universal truths of life and the laws that the world runs by.
No one I know in Argentina gives a shit about these islands. Enough people died already and as things stand this is a loose -loose situation for all involved. All I've read on this wall is resentful argies who have trouble spelling english and smug falklanders who keep taking digs at the argentine population. Both sides need to get a grip and get over it.
May 10th, 2011 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@60, we may take digs at them but they want to throw us out of our land. Some idiots like “I”, want to kill us all. l'm glad you said that the people that you know don't care about our lslands.The problem is the people that you don't know, who want to colonise/conquer us. The irony is that 3rd &4th generation Argentines somehow think that they have a greater right to our lslands than 8th & 9th generation Falklanders.
May 11th, 2011 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Until this rubbish is stopped there will be bad feeling which could one day escalate into conflict(again).We have nothing to “get over”. Argentina is the one causing all the trouble.
Rodrigo,The people of the Falklands would love to get 'over it' but the Argentine government have an agenda to possess these islands and have done ,ever since Belgrano stood up and declared that he owned everything south of a certain lattitude,including all the islands ! The Falkland Island government have done nothing to impede their country or people,but the Argentine government use's every single opportuinity to interfere with the Falklands and its free people It is even illegal for an Islander to fly their own flag in Intenational waters, according to Argentine law.They have recently,successfully, threatened large shipping corporations to stop trading with the Falklands or face being banned from Argentine ports. The list is endless , so please ask the Argentine Government to 'Get over it ' and start behaving like a mature ,civilised country.
May 11th, 2011 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0OK: fair enough, It's not that we “don't give a shit”... we have serious “real” problems we need to sort out before this ridiculous dispute.
May 11th, 2011 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What I meant was that it's not the argentine people. The goverment is not the representation of the nation although it's the face and it's easy to get into the habit of saying “the argies want this” or “the argies think that”... unless you're there and living there you'll never know how bad conditions are. Those that shout the loudest aren't necesarily right, so any future condescending or insulting comments from the usual argentines, please regard as such... Stay in your islands and let's hope the bridge is built one day again for the prosperity of all. I doubt it will happen while the generations that lived the conflict are still living. PS: as far as future generations of argentines thinking they have a claim on your islands... don't believe all that's written in your newspapers... i'm well aware of what kids are being taught in schools and (granted) there is cpntroversy over a few student manuals incorporating goverment propaganda. That however is a minority in some schools in the capital. 62: As far as argentina threatening large shipping corporations, let me tell you something: This country is by no means in any position to dig in their heels and make tghis type of ultimatums as they have lost all potential buyers from europe and canada for the next 2 seasons. I think it was soy or some mineral...
The relatives I have in the south still remember people from the falklands coming to study in argentina and coming over for medical issues and it was a relatively happy time for all.
Well said !!
May 12th, 2011 - 01:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ah at last.....An Argentinian on here with good english and an understanding of the problems. I often meet up with Argentinians and have polite conversations about the Falklands and most are unware of where the truth actually ls but accept that their Government lies about every thing else and all of them have no balanced view of the history of the dispute because of the government propaganda. The big shipping lines have been frightened off and the Islanders attitude is OK,we will just do it better and differently. It is a great shame that the two nations cannot live side by side in harmony because Argentina would be the biggest benificiary.Please write/email to your politicians and ask them to understand that having been illegally invaded and then subjected to years of political bullying,the Islanders are not going to come around to their way of thinking. Just go to the International court of Justice and put your case and then everyone will abide by the judgement and can live in peace.Many many Argentinians are good people as are many many Islanders.Can you ,Rodrigo make a difference ?
May 12th, 2011 - 06:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0@63Rodrigo, l hope that there are many more Argentines with your sentiments however be prepared to be abused by the malvinistas.
May 12th, 2011 - 09:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0definately not afraid of the malvinistas. They aren't the majority although they tend to be the most violent and vicious. Still, I can handle a debate with one by simple logics and common sense. I've lived in London for 12 years and have had a few “traitor” remarks thrown my way. I've done my own research both from UK and Argentine sources. If Argentina's claims of being expelled by the British from the islands in 1832 have any grounds, then it's down to simple squatters rights on a grand scale. simple. A time will come, eventually, when the argentines choose a government that will focus on priorities rather than stir up peronist/ revolutionary bollocks. I, like so many, believe there's enough room in the south atlantic for us all to breath in. The trouble with democracy is that it depends on the intelligence of it's people.
May 12th, 2011 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Malvinista as a word doesnt exist in spanish (diccionario de la real academia española).
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