MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Multiple disciplines exhibit on Argentina’s Malvinas passion opens in Buenos Aires
A multiple discipline exhibition on the Malvinas Islands ahead of the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict will be officially opened Thursday evening in the Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires. Read full article
Comments
Disclaimer & comment rulesHold on everyone!!!
Mar 29th, 2012 - 07:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0This could be big!!
I see an eighth wonder of the world in the offing!!
Talk about romantasing an unjust war!!
It should become a shrine to all those conscripts who were needlessly sacrificed on their leaders political whim. It should serve as a warning to ALL those Argentinians who think that invading the Falkand Islands was / is a good idea and it should stand FOREVER as a nations shame at the failure of their expansionist policy.
what a set of sad wankers.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0'Heroes' who laid unmapped landmines against international law, tossed landmines out of planes, that continue to terrorise the local falkland islanders. 'Heroes' whose machismo cannot let them admit they lost a war, and lost the islands.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, so heroic I'm lost for words.
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/03/28/argentina-import-restrictions-on-books/#axzz1qUdyrLVV
Mar 29th, 2012 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentines ought to be grateful. Their government has taken action against one of the hitherto little remarked upon hazards of modern life: reading.
Just think: Argentines – and probably many more worldwide – have been unwittingly exposing themselves to potentially dangerous levels of lead in the ink in the publications they peruse. No longer. Under thoughtful new rules, imported books and magazines will be held up by customs authorities while the lead levels in the ink are checked – all in the name of public health and environmental protection, its supporters say.
On Twitter, however, few cheer this latest measure, viewing it not as a safeguard by a nanny state but a new Kafkaesque measure by a government bent on substituting foreign-made things for things that could be made by Argentines. Free the books, is the Twitter hashtag.
Is culture being held hostage to Argentina’s trade policy? Widgets can be substituted, but can foreign books?
Readers fear that orders from Amazon will require a trip to the customs department of the Ezeiza international airport, some 40km outside Buenos Aires, for the bureaucratic delight of being allowed, for a fee, to pick up orders that in other countries plop straight through the letterbox without any problems. Amazon did not answer beyondbrics’ request about how it and its customers would be impacted by the new rules, and no one could be reached in customs at Ezeiza for comment.
One medical publishing house was sent a sample of a weighty $300 tome recently, an industry source told beyondbrics. At Ezeiza, the representative was asked to pay $80 to be able to take it away. He declined and said: “Destroy it.”
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to b
@4 The Argentinian ministry of truth (Minitru) couldn't have played this one any better. I'm guessing at Ezeiza international airport they don't test your book for lead levels before letting you take it away, or not as far as I have heard.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0So this is the latest battle in the war on the minds of the adult Argentinians, following the extensive amount of propaganda they are subjected to in childhood.
We know where this is going to end (rerun of 1939)
@5
Mar 29th, 2012 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0as we know the RG's make huge pronouncements and they forget about them. This will be about making money at customs and salting it away somewhere.
Remember the one the other week about the botox queen instructing her ministers ie la campora to speak to the uk about the 3 flights from plummet airlines? thats all gone quiet. completely forgotten about.
They are complete clowns.
Clowns are right.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Might have a few vodkas on the 14th of June.
Now that's worth celebrating.
A university in Argentina has a museum for a non existent place?
Mar 29th, 2012 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Must be a great university. Maybe they offer non existent degrees, to non existent students?
Argentines = raving loons.
This is like the Japanese setting up an exhibition celebrating their cowardly unprovoked attack on Hawaii, but the Japanese have some self-respect.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0what happens to the squatters and thieves (after expelling and staying in a land of SA by force) that are getting so angry and crying?????
Mar 29th, 2012 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0we conmemorate our soldiers that gave their lifes in 1982
the way we like, our way.
@10 melon We kicked the squatters and thieves off in 1831, then again in 1982.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Learn some history f***wit.
http://www.falklands.gov.fk/Historical_Dates.html
alexei since 1820 you werent there the isles had authority and population of Argentina
Mar 29th, 2012 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0and southamerica for south americans
get your facts right
and leave our soldiers in peace, dont bother with that
Will this exhibit commemorate the death of the Falkland Islanders that were a direct result of Argentina firing from designated civilian positions.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Will it commemorate the deaths of UK soldiers that were killed when going to accept the surrender of Argentine soldiers who were performing a false surrender.
Will is commemorate the Argentine affinity for painting a red cross on every building with a Argentine soldier in it.
I guess not as the Geneva convention does not exactly apply to Argentina does it?
the three FI that were killed was because of mistake of your own troops
Mar 29th, 2012 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the killing of british soldiers we also think it was a sadly thing to happenned
you also killed 300 of Gral Belgrano outside from combant front
leave the dead in peace
@12 You killed the original South Americans and stole their land.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Before 1982 the Argentine military were used to shooting students and nuns. ( http://en.mercopress.com/2011/05/12/pilots-linked-to-argentina-s-death-flights-and-killing-of-french-nuns-arrested )
Sympathy to the families of the dead Argentine soldiers, RIP and all that, but when you invade and occupy another land, subjugate its people, and pick a fight with the British, we tend to shoot back and sh*t happens.
14- Read the above and soak in the facts, Argentines sited firing positions in civilian areas (you are not meant to do this) wasnt an exocet strapped or positioned in a childrens playground...
Mar 29th, 2012 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Re- Belgrano read the Captains statement on his mission and whether he thought it was a viable target.
Captain Hector Bonzo: “Yes, I agree with that statement. I think we posed a real threat... we never had any intention of going back to shore; we were only waiting for the right moment to act.”
Scroll down to: on this link
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/war%20%26%20conflict/modern%20conflict/art45923
An abandoned Argentine rocket launcher on an improvised mounting discovered on top of a slide in a children’s playground at the Goose Green settlement.
Madun - there was nothing and nobody on the Falklands in 1820 other than British and American whalers and sealers, and the odd pirate.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the spaniards killed many of the original population when thye invaded illegally our land, many others mixed, and we made revolution to spaniards.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0what happenned with dictators its a problem of our nation that it has been judged. I know that has been state oppression or state terrorism or abuse of power. No need you to tell me that, I recoignize it.
@18 Fair enough, you disown Spain, but the claim on the Falkland Islands, like all other Argentine claims on other peoples' lands is based on imagined 'inheritance' from Spain. You can't have it both ways.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 03 GreekYoghurt
Mar 29th, 2012 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well said Sir !!!!!!!
and the moral of the story.... dont start something you cannot finish!
Mar 29th, 2012 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 013
Mar 29th, 2012 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Will it commemorate the deaths of UK soldiers that were killed when going to accept the surrender of Argentine soldiers who were performing a false surrender.
Quite right the Argentines abused the white flag and won't be given a second chance. If there is a re-run of the tragic events 30 years ago, British Soldiers will continue firing and then fix bayonets.
There is a territory of 40+ million inhabitants that is marked for destruction. Because it kills, it invades, it lies, it cheats, it steals, or tries to. Let those inhabitants that properly subscribe to REAL truth, REAL honesty leave. SOON. You don't have much time left. Your own government is working for your destruction. Go to live somewhere safe. Like a Russian Gulag. Or Iran. Leave NOW!!
Mar 29th, 2012 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A psychopathological fixation is not a “passion.” It's a mental disease.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
sir arthur harris wiki.the nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else and nobody was going to bomb them at rotterdam,london warsaw and half a hundred other places they put there rather naive theory into operation,they sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.bomber harris.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0of all the decent and honest bloogs in the world,
Mar 29th, 2012 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we get the likes of malen,,,,,,,,,,,,,
no shame some people,
Exhibition = Vomitus
Mar 29th, 2012 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 18
malem, the fatty indian crying again. Looooooooser! India pata sucia asquerosa.
7 lsolde
Mar 29th, 2012 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are going to celebrate the 14th June, What? another pirate enclave colony! great!!!
Malen - You know that the Belgrano was a valid military target. The 200 mile exclusion zone was there to inform non Argentine vessels/aircraft to stay away as they would be at risk of being attacked if they entered (part of the Geneva convention). We were within our rights to attack any Argentine military target anywhere on the planet.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The three Falkland Islanders that were killed were by the direct actions of your countrymen. Firstly they had no right to invade and secondly if your soldiers were men of honour they would have not been firing from a designated civilian area. Remember Malen, you started it and we finished it.
Every single drop of blood from that dreadful war is on the hands of Argentina.
@29 They don't care. They think they won the war, that's what they were taught in school, and that's what's in their school books.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 09:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The ARA Saint Belgrano was in their mind shooting out love rainbows and honeysuckle candy canes in the South Atlantic when we savagely sank it.
They're just weak minded fools, that don't know the consequences of their actions.
@30 GreekYoghurt,
Mar 29th, 2012 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually l though that the Belgrano was a hospital ship! LOL.
@28 puerto argentino,
Jealousy will get you no-where.
14th of June is a glorious day.
The day that the invading, lying, dishonourable scumbags surrendered.
Stay in your own backyard, don't come into ours.
@14 malen,
Didn't like it when we sank the Belgrano, eh?
So you think it was outside of some “zone”?
What about the RN ships you were going to to try to sink at Gibraltar?
Thats a long way from your precious “zone”
ldiota.
29 Beef The three ladies were murdered by indiscriminate bombarment of HMS Avenger.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 09:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not a single islander was hurt or raped during the conflict by Argentinean personal, not even the ones that help the British forces.
Do you know the names of those three ladies? I doubt it.
Mrs Susan Whitley, Mrs Doreen Bonner and Mrs Mary Goodwin.
RIP all the dead and injured during the conflict.
http://www.ppu.org.uk/falklands/falklands3.html
I asked an Argentine yesterday why they celebrate the start of a war they lost rather than commemorate the people that died. The look of confusion was priceless before they insisted that it was something to celebrate. : )
Mar 29th, 2012 - 10:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos - you cowards shouldn't have been there in the first place and why were you firing from civilian areas? They died because of Argentina Marcos because of a bunch of cowards from your country. Nothing changes apart from the dress code of your leadership.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Enjoy celebrating the 30th anniversary of the commencement of killing Marcos. When did you lot lose your integrity (if you ever had any)?
Beef, Your insults and your ignorance, together with Elaine B and others in here does not represent the view of many British that I know very well.
Mar 29th, 2012 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As you know I was not in favour of the war nor my self elected dictators, but facts are facts as Lucy Beck wrote in the article@32. Your elected leaders share the responsibility of that stupid war thirty years ago.
A few hours ago six Nobel Peace Prize laureates from every corner of the planet called for Britain to open talks with Argentina on the sovereignty of the islands and to comply with United Nations resolutions calling for the initiation of talks with Argentina, so get use to the peaceful change and stop barking non sense.
@35
Mar 29th, 2012 - 11:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fuckoff.
@ 35 blah blah blah, The Falklands are British, b*tch :)
Mar 30th, 2012 - 12:37 am - Link - Report abuse 053 xbarilox (#)Nov 14th, 2010 As Marcos Alejandro has stated before, Britain must go, and in the end it will have to go; the issue is one of how and when.
Mar 30th, 2012 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Malvinas Argentinas
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/12/12/chile-names-harvard-educated-economist-as-new-central-bank-president
Well that's the Ambassador told :-)
Mar 30th, 2012 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/haig-tells-argentina-we-will-defend-the-falklands/
@ 38 And that's true, where is your problem? Malvinas Islands belong to Argentina, and The Falkland Islands belong to Britain. Sorry I can't tell you where Las Malvinas are located. Take it easy :)
Mar 30th, 2012 - 01:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0George Galloway elected with a landslide in Britain's most sensational ever by-election result:
Mar 30th, 2012 - 04:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17549388
My King's share of the vote was as great as my Queen's =)
@41 so an idiot that licks dictators boots, who was against the war in libya, yet called his election the bradford spring (an area of majority muslim enthnic people), won! So what hes an hypocrite, hes hardly going to be prime minister and the result is likely a back lash towards labour and the conservatives, which isn't surprising considering their current policies and the vat on hot pasties and pies.
Mar 30th, 2012 - 05:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos - we share no responsibility for the 1982 war. Our involvement was to preserve the wishes of the Islanders and to defeat your savage dictatorship. In doing so we played our part in returning your country to civilian rule.
Mar 30th, 2012 - 06:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0The six nobel peace prize winners can say what they wish, their letter does nothing to change the correct and just British gvt position and we will see if they respond to a letter from the people that really mater, the islanders themselves.
A group of highly respected Argentines have called on your gvt to change its approach and drop its claim. They then are visciously attacked by sections of your media. Are they not allowed an opinion that is different to the nonsence vomited out by your increasingly desperate leadership.
There is no change Marcos and you are no closer to achieving your ambitions with regards to the Islands. You do actually know this but cannot bring youself to admit it.
@ 41 Ughhh. I don't suppose you, your “king” and “queen” could set up a tiny kingdom somewhere very far away with no broadband access and close proximity to an active volcano could ya?
Mar 30th, 2012 - 06:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 41 do you like your king being a pussy cat or a Saddam Hussain supporter?
Mar 30th, 2012 - 06:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0#42 If you think the war in Libya was the Arab Spring, that just shows your an ignorant militarist, the real Arab Spring was the peaceful democratic removal of Ben Ali, Mubarak (a personal enemy of George) and the shaking of the whole Arab world BY THE ARABS THEMSELVES. The bombing of Libya was a largely successful attempt by the imperialists to retake control of what had begun as a revolt against them. George's position was against Gaddafi, as a tyrant lunatic and western stooge himself in recent years, but even more against our own country bombing and trying to take control of the oil
Mar 30th, 2012 - 09:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0I bet they don't show pictures of cowardly Argentinian soldiers pissing themselves in the foxholes.
Mar 30th, 2012 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 046 British_Kirchnerist
Mar 30th, 2012 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0if you think this was just another imperialists event
why dont you go to lybia and tell them that, and perhaps you can take your king and queen with you.
and if you get out alive, you may,,just may, have a different opinion of why they were there in the first place .
47 Skåre
Mar 30th, 2012 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, I am wondering how many British imagines / pictures they will use, I bet our memories of that war are a lot less confusing.
Hero's indeed!!
Was it not these same “Hero's” who sited their Artillery in the middle of housing estates?
Who paint red crosses on not only their ammunition stores but also their food stores as well?
Was it not these “Hero's” how used the primary school in Port Stanley as a toilet?
Please watch this short educational video on Argentina - it's hilarious...
Mar 31st, 2012 - 12:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Malvinas vs Falklands: Negotiations with the U.N.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vys78sGB7Y
@Marcos Alejandro
Mar 31st, 2012 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So you want to kick out the islanders?
Thats what you planned in 1982.
The islanders are'nt going anywhere. We are'nt going anywhere either.
Why don't you go back to Spain or wherever your ancestors came from? I am sure the surviving indigenous population would be ecstatic to reclaim their land from a bunch of foriegn usurpers and squatters.
The Falklands are 300 miles away from the mainland and your claim to them is based on lies, distortion and a ludicrous inferiority complex.
@32 & 35 Indiscriminate? I think not. Perhaps you'd like to clarify all the argie artillery pieces, of every description, placed between and in close proximity to civilian housing, in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention? Or the buildings etc. painted with the Red Cross despite containing only armed argie troops? Or perhaps you'd like to comment on argie troops displaying a white surrender flag, only to open fire when British troops went forward to accept the surrender? Argies = gutless cowards with no honour. Not to worry. Next time they really will be gutless. No prisoners! By bullet, shell or bayonet. As for the six Nobel peace laureates? They can get stuffed. There will be NO negotiations.
Mar 31st, 2012 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@46 Ignorant little shit!
lets face it,,,
Mar 31st, 2012 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0at this rate, argentina will be broken up and split into different countries,
and all because their deluded leader and her indocrinoughts, put the british falklands, before their own people and argentina,
so in advance, bye bye .
@53 briton,
Apr 01st, 2012 - 07:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0l pray for the day when Argentina breaks up into smaller countries.
Or perhaps Chile takes over some of their southern provinces.
I think that a normal country would have just remembered their dead and then let off fireworks to celebrate the begining of the end of the Junta.
Apr 01st, 2012 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And then not to forget to thank the UK for 'giving a helping hand'.
@ 52 Ignorant little shit! to you also. Keep your cr*p in your mouth where it belongs and stop making generalizations that only evidence your ignorance. BTW, YOU Brti guys let the one who did that get away, so SU.
Apr 01st, 2012 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for the Argentine troops performance, people lke J. Moore had a very different concept like the one you´ve displayed here at MP ad nauseam but, hey, you surely know more than him.
@54: that´s pretty much retarded. I´m sure all the fans of your dead pal Pinochet (a dictator) would love that. And then they say “the chileans/british intentions toward argentine land are a lie” ..... Spare us you BS, please.
***********************
You guys don´t see the bright side of this comments: people from the UK, the FI and Argentina united by the despice toward Mrs. Kirchner !!!! Now how can we use that in a constructive way ?
get rid of CFK
Apr 01st, 2012 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0remove the offending item from the constitution.
renounce any and all claims on the falkland islands,
and promise to try and put right , that others have destroyed,
be friendy-helpfull-diligent-kind-offer-be conciderate, the fure is in your hands .
@56 estg,
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0briton at 57 is right.
Can Argentina do it?
lt would be nice but l doubt it.
Yes, definitely smaller countries it will have to be.
not BS, a great idea for us.
#56 Right wingers united by hatred of my Queen, yet wanting to make war against each other while she and her British admirers preach peace; some unity lol
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0?????????? definetly .
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please join -
Apr 04th, 2012 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Keep the Falklands British -
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Keep-the-Falklands-British/123151384435619?sk=wall&filter=1
Commenting for this story is now closed.
If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!