Stories for April 2012

Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 22:33 UTC
Argentine Malvinas war June 14 surrender telegram auctioned for £ 7.250

One day after the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Malvinas war, Bonhams auction house sold a copy of the telegram with which Argentina surrendered in 1982, for £7.250.
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 22:28 UTC
Ecuador will not attend Americas summit in solidarity with Cuba’s exclusion

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa confirmed he will not attend this month's Summit of the Americas in Colombia, nor any other gathering that excludes Cuba or fails to address what he calls the region's most pressing issues.
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 21:16 UTC
Standing invitation to C24 chair and fact finding commission to travel to Falklands

The Falklands government repeated on Tuesday its standing invitation to any current or future chair of the UN Decolonization Committee to visit the Islands and reiterated it welcomes any fact finding commission the C24 wishes to send.
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 20:47 UTC
“The Falklands belong to the Islanders” and are the key to the question

“The Falkland Islands belong to you, the Islanders”, said one of Argentina’s top political analysts and journalists Mariano Grondona. Although the quote, from the Penguin News, dates back to October 1998 when he was invited to the Islands by the Falklands Legislative Council, Mr. Grondona has not betrayed the statement and reiterated his opinion.
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 05:15 UTC
The Peruvian Exocet connection in the Falklands/Malvinas war

It was 1982 and Peru had returned to the path of democracy. Belaunde Terry was elected president, the same man the military ousted in 1968, and he was no friend of military or right wing dictatorships.
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 03:47 UTC
Food inflation in South America is higher than the average overall index

In the last two years inflation in Latin America has stabilized varying between 6% and 7%, according to the latest monthly report from the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) regional office.
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 03:44 UTC
FARC free ten military hostages held in jungle prisons for more than a decade

Colombia's FARC rebels on Monday freed 10 members of the armed forces held hostage in jungle prison camps for more than a decade, the last of a group of captives the drug-funded group has held as bargaining chips to pressure the government.
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 03:33 UTC
Americas Summit expected to release support-statement for Argentina’s Falklands claim

Thirty years after the Falklands/Malvinas war, Latin America seems to be closing ranks behind Argentina's sovereignty claim over the disputed islands and reviving a bid for control in the resource-rich South Atlantic.
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 00:47 UTC
Argentine invasion of the Falklands, ‘a profound wrong’ says PM Cameron

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday April 2 called Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands three decades ago a “profound wrong” aimed at depriving the Islanders of their freedom.
Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 23:47 UTC
UK lights Falklands’ flame at Arboretum chapel on war anniversary remembrance

UK launched on Monday at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire a series of low key commemorative events to be held over the next 11 weeks, to remember 30 years of the day the Falkland Islands were invaded.