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Cristina Fernandez regrets Uruguay is not part of Argentina and praises Uruguayan liberator
President Cristina Fernandez deeply regretted that history did not allow Uruguay to be part of Argentina and blamed ‘so many other events that divided and separated’ the two neighbouring countries preventing them from being ‘a great, great nation’. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI am wondering what the people of Uruguay are thinking about these comments on unification.
Jun 26th, 2013 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Watch this space......territorial ambitions ?
Jun 26th, 2013 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“yes together it would have been a great nation with Uruguay the head and brains and Argentina the rest”,
Jun 26th, 2013 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so in essence Argenweener would be the arm pit and the arse hole....
And the Falklands? If Uruguay would be part of Argentina I would be living in outer space.
Jun 26th, 2013 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 01
Jun 26th, 2013 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What comments on unification? Although she may be referring to la Patria Grande as Argentina, Artigas indeed never fought for Uruguays independency. He sought the unification of the provinces. These are historical facts.
2 Clyde 15 . I like it , we she now claim Uruguay is , after all , Argentine !
Jun 26th, 2013 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So the Brits helped Uraguay with their SELF DETERMINATION and guarenteed protection from the territorial ambitions of its powerful neighbours. Sounds familiar and history repeating itslef....
Jun 26th, 2013 - 09:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Give it another 30 years, Argentina will have been through 3 more bankruptcies, another long period of military dictatorship and they'll be going to the UN to demand that Uruguay become a province of Argtardia.
Jun 26th, 2013 - 09:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All it takes is some made up bollocks history drilled into a couple of generations of schoolkids and the delusion will be set for the rest of time.
I would expect Brazil to intercede again, before Argentina's “ambitions” became realised.
Jun 26th, 2013 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
I imagine that all Uruguayans also regret not being under the rule of the Casa Rosada...
Jun 26th, 2013 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Frankly, nobody in their right mind would want to surrender their national sovernty to Buenos Aries.
Although, perhaps the Argentine military MIGHT be able to successfully invade and conqueror the peaceful nation. Too far from Heaven and too close to Argentina...
I'm glad uruguay didn't become a part of Argentina,i would've hated myself. but hey, argentina if you want to become a part of uruguay, go ahead.
Jun 27th, 2013 - 01:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0#11
Jun 27th, 2013 - 05:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Please don't say that. We would have to take in all the lying, thieving scamming Sicilian porteños. Let them wallow in their self impose delusion of superiority. Over 200 years a still no functioning honest non-corrupt leadership.
”yes together it would have been a great nation with Uruguay the head and brains and Argentina the rest” - many a word spoken in jest!?
Jun 27th, 2013 - 07:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is absolutely priceless . Keep digging Cristina , you'll get to China soon .
Jun 27th, 2013 - 07:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Unification???? unification???
Jun 27th, 2013 - 07:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you mean “annexation??” or “forceful occupation??”
Who was that kn*b yeasterday who said that ”Argentina has no Colonial ambitions??
Nice one Botox Queen!! If no one trusted you before, they certainly don't trust you now!!
Apparently she has given up on Stanley and the surrounding environs.
Jun 27th, 2013 - 08:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0She now sets her sights on another country of interest.
You have heard of the film The Nutty Professor ? The new version is now titled The Nutty President.
Oh Pepe ! How right you were.
Cristina - opens mouth and inserts foot.
Jun 27th, 2013 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0She really is deluded if she believes that 'everyone' wants to be Argentine. We've all known for a long time that Argentina 'believes' that Uruguay should be another Province of Argentina, but now the President has actually come out and said it.
The Uruguayan government needs to put her in her place immediately.
Feck diplomacy. Argentina doesn't understand it anyway.
As for Argentina's armed forces? Uruguay has nothing to worry about, they're armed with sh!t equipment, and are completely underfunded.
I doubt they'd get anywhere near the border with Uruguay without the UN basically threatening to bomb Argentina back to t the stone age if they stepped one toe over the line.
Uruguay is a territory “stolen” from Argentina in the early 1800's. Spanish colonial usurpers in montevideo usurped the territory from the original Argentines from Buenos Aires.
Jun 27th, 2013 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Everyone knows that, there are 77 UN resolutions and the whole world supports Argentinas claim. Uruguays 2 world cups are also Argentine.
@18 monkeymagic
Jun 27th, 2013 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lol !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There should be more “Uruguays” seceding from the corrupt and run-down mess that is Argentina, a country which has proved itself too big and incompetent to be a well-governed single unitary state.
Jun 27th, 2013 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 017 LEPRecon
Jun 27th, 2013 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Does this mean that Laughing Boy Timerman is going to run off to the C24 and complain and whine ( like a little b*tch ) and make up lies and tell the C24 that the people of Uruguay arn't really a “People” at all??
I think that Argentina-land would be a lot better neighbour if it was turned into a “League” of nations...........
“yes together it would have been a great nation with Uruguay the head and brains and Argentina the rest”
Jun 27th, 2013 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL!
Minutes from a meeting at Not so secret location
Jun 27th, 2013 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ok the Falklands distraction is not working, If we have a go we will get our arses kicked
Who else can we have a go at, it has to be some one small with a very small defence force we don't want another shambles and we have not completed our project of tying up the judiciary to prevent future prosecution
Some one who is dependent on us who will not kick up to much a fuss as we throw our weigh around to reassure the masses and keep us in power for a little bit longer any suggestions.....
Unfortunately many a true word said in jest.......
You can see a lot of the argies on holiday at PdelE during the season. Some of them, like my next door neighbour, are very nice but I have come across a number that try and push in front of the queue in shops and at the fuel stations: haven't seen any succeed though.
Jun 27th, 2013 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 Livin_for_a_better_Uruguay
You are not Uruguayo are you? Where do you come from?
This is how it starts!
Jun 27th, 2013 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Next it will be Uruguay was in fact stolen from Argentina by those usurping colonial pirates the Brits.
Then a population of UrugoBrits implanted, who have no more rights today “than the rocks on the beach”, only the native indigenous Argies across the river do.
And it’s on the Argentinian continental shelf.
Was part of the “inherited by Argentina from the Spanish” Vice Royalty of the River Plate.
The very existence of Uruguay as a sovereign state must contravene 50 – 60 UN resolutions at least.
Not forgetting the 20 or so recently re-worded treaties, just discovered, that all clearly state the entire known world and the Martian ambassador agreed, Argenguay belonged to Argentina.
Joking aside, Uruguay should take careful note of these remarks by CFK.
Are the Argentines going to put anything in their constitution about this?
Jun 27th, 2013 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The text under the image is plain wrong.
Jun 27th, 2013 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Jose Artigas the federal icon and Uruguayan liberator, defeated by Buenos Aires conspirators ”
Artigas was defeated by the Portuguese, what Buenos Aires did was fail to aid him as agreed.
The headline is wrong too, Artigas is not Uruguays liberator, he's Uruguays procer. Artigas left Banda Oriental for Corrientes and later Paraguay 1820, Uruguay was declared independent 1825-28.
Artigas wrote his will during September of 1850, just a month after José de San Martín, and he led his will with the phrase: “I, Jose Gervasio Artigas, argentine born from the Eastern Band.” But most likely he was referring to his origins in the River Plate.
Jun 27th, 2013 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0His life was indeed was marked by his closed cultural, political and military relationship with several provinces that are now part of Argentina. Some of these provinces, Entre Rios, Misiones, Corrientes, etc., had more fluid and close political relationships with Uruguay than with Buenos Aires.
Sadly his destination was, the same as many Argentine heroes and warlords, the exile in his case in Paraguay (like Sarmiento).
Anyway, CFK phrase is totally out of place and only feeds the proud and boastful reputation we Argentines have. Having a big mouth and talking a lot are not good characteristics for a head of state.
pgerman
Jun 27th, 2013 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Artigas was born in Montevideo. At the time of his birth, what would become Banda Oriental and later Uruguay, was a part of the virreinato de Buenos Aires. The name “Argentina” derives from the same origin as the River Plate, namely the silver (Argentum in Latin, plata in Spanish) that was transported through the area.
Indeed Artigas was a federalist that United many provinces in that area, and still to this day we have loads in common with people from Entre Rios and Corrientes. Uruguay might still to this day have issues with Buenos Aires, but never with Argentina as a whole.
Stevie,
Jun 27th, 2013 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, I agree with you. Most likely this was the reason of this expression.
I just thought my post would be an interesting comment.
CFK has made her opinions made in public,
Jun 27th, 2013 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So there is no excuse in the future,
You have been told,
She is still looking for that elusive victory,
And she needs a boost for the next election,
If she can’t have the British Falklands,
Then perhaps land nearer to home may well suffice..
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29 . You forgot to mention that Artigas was exiled to , and died , in Paraguay .
Jun 27th, 2013 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 18 Monkeymagic
Jun 27th, 2013 - 10:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and what about the 268 African countries that support Argentina's claims on Brazil?
Baxter
Jun 27th, 2013 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Portuguese invaded the Eastern Province around and Artigas got upset with the unionists in Buenos Aires and declared them war as well. He lost the war against the Portuguese and with that his officers. Think feodalism. Rivera, one of his former men, joined the Portuguese forces and the rest re-joined the unionists.
Artigas was exiled yes, but not only that, there are historical letters showing Rivera wanted Artigas dead. Artigas went to Entre Rios, where another landlord who disaproved of both Buenos Aires and Artigas ideas had taken charge in the aftermath of the fall of Artigas. He drove him further North, to the only people that never left his side. The only man in that period that ever mentioned their cause. The Guaraní People, and with them, the Charrúas.
El sueño Artiguista is this tale called...
Uruguayans have plenty of time to enjoy their sovereignty, going on past experience it will take at least 80 years to become an implanted population that does not exist and occupy usurped land.
Jun 28th, 2013 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do Uruguay regret they are not part of Argentina too?
Jun 29th, 2013 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0LOL http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d4612bf8-e194-11e2-b796-00144feabdc0.html
Jul 01st, 2013 - 04:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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