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UK ambassador underlines close historic links between Falklands and Punta Arenas
British ambassador in Chile Jon Benjamin met this week in Punta Arenas with a group of local students from municipal managed schools who were recently part of an exchange program with the Falkland Islands and underlined the close links between the two communities. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesthey told me most of it in spanish..............well if you are in Punta Arenas, Chile, South america thats the language we talk.
Dec 19th, 2011 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Dec 19th, 2011 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Spanish a european language spoken all that way from Spain
@1 malen,
Dec 19th, 2011 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0No, go on! really?
@ 1 'We' ??? You are in Punta Arenas???? You are Chilean????
Dec 19th, 2011 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or are you just presuming to speak for the Chileans.....?
Ambassador Benjamin think Punta Arenas is a British colony(Sergio is happy)
Dec 19th, 2011 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Too late for kissing butt Benjamin.
Chilean group ‘Solidarity with Malvinas”
“visited this week the Argentine legation in Santiago to meet Ambassador Ginés González Garcia and express their support for Argentina’s claim over the disputed Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands”
Chilean President Piñera a few days ago:
“The position of the Chilean government is clear and firm: we back and support the right of Argentina, on legal and historic reasons, over the Malvinas and other adjoining islands”
The country with the largest GDP in South America speaks Portugese, not Spanish.
Dec 19th, 2011 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow the City is really getting desperate.Imagine an English diplomat able to speak a few words in another language and begging the villeros to visit the Malvinas more often
Dec 19th, 2011 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree with you O'Gara!1 The reality uk and any extracontinetal powers are loosing the grip on SA!
Dec 20th, 2011 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0SA is for the people who lives here!! Squatters OUT!!
“SA is for the people who lives here!! ”
Dec 20th, 2011 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You should make that the strap line for your tourism.
8 Malvinero1 (#)
Dec 20th, 2011 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree with you O'Gara,
and both are losing a grip on your own mind,
But you are a Squatter, Malvinero1.
Dec 21st, 2011 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0You said your parents came from ltaly & you are in the native people's land.
You & Think are part of an implanted population.
Perhaps it is them who need to re-emigrate back to where they came from,
Dec 21st, 2011 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then south America, given back to the original people
May well bring peace and prosperity to the real Americans who richly deserve it,
And not a bunch of greedy self deluded ex Europeans, who call themselves argentine.
@ 1 that is not true, in Argentina we speak many different languages: Spanish, English, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Ukranian, Russian, Vietnamese, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Farsi, etc etc etc. Yesterday I've met two men and a woman from Senegal, they are living here since 2008 so that is another language sponken in this country, among others.
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 12 The natives can suck on a lollipop. My parents gave me that right when they came here and I was born here, so I own a piece of this land. those indians are really stupid and boring people if they believe we will leave this land. Sending their stupid caciques against us? Keep dreaming!
And you very own own words are, duplicated and in reverse for the falkland islanders.
Dec 23rd, 2011 - 01:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0you can dream if you like, but reality says different .
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