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Falklands receives visit of lawmakers from Panama’s National Assembly
A group of Panama National Assembly members has arrived in the Falkland Islands for a week long visit. The party is headed by Foreign Affairs Commission president Dalia Bernal and includes Yaniel Abrego, president of the Education Commission, lawmaker Renaul Dominguez and Jorge Gantes legal advisor of the Foreign Affaris Committee. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesPeople who sit on the fence do so because they enjoy the sensation.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 08:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let's be fair. At least they've come to find out. Make sure the minefields are on the list of places for them to visit.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good news that a democratic nation is making the effort to find out about both sides of the argument - could lead to them becoming more neutral in the dispute and perhaps piointing out to CFK that like it or not she does have to take our wishes into the equation.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We dont expect them to change sides - just be more neutral and open and leave it to those concerned to resolve.
I always enjoy a free trip abroad at my employers expense, I can be very amenable and open minded and put on my serious face when my boss is making his choice and also when submitting my expenses of course.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would be very surprised indeed if there was a public acknowledgement of the Falklanders right to self determination by the Panama government at the end of this. Very surprised indeed!
Maybe Argentina's protectionist attitude makes the Falklanders moral and historic arguement a bit easier for politicians to listen to.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Being friendly with a regional power that has a habit of throwing hissy fits might make links with the Falklands difficult, but Argentina turning themselves into an irrelevance MUST make it easier for other Latin American countries politicians to listen to their conscious.
Well done those Panamanians
I cant see it as anything but a posiive when any LA country sends an official delehation to the Falklands for whatever purpose. It tends to strengthen the legitimacy of the FIG while at the same time it pisses off Argentina and makes them more irrelevent. A win win to me.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just when things were looking bright for CFK lol.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The question I ask myself is if CFK was in a strong position in her country and looking likely to win her election, also the economy of Argentina was strong, would Panama be sending this delegation?
Sep 17th, 2013 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Probably not in my opinion, they know that CFK is not likely to be around much longer and Argentina is likely to go tits up again.
It's called hedging your bets and favourably positioning yourself for a future slice of the Falkland Islands oil wealth. In other words, sitting on the fence.
I look forward to the refreshing day when a South American stands up and openly supports the Falkland Islanders rights to exist. It's a symptom of catholicism that they don't - a whole continent indoctrinated into saying what they are told to believe.
This delegation has been invited (and its expenses paid) by the Islands authorities so it is expectable this type of keen statements to hosts ears. Nevertheless, the truth is that Panama officially supports Argentina´s claims: http://www.prensa.com/uhora/locales/timerman-respaldo-de-panama-en-causa-de-las-islas-malvinas-es-fundamental/57700
Sep 17th, 2013 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Former Presidents of that Nation also recenty expressed that “Malvinas is a Latin American cause”
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Sep 17th, 2013 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I still say my appraisal is more accurate. Oh and please, the only latin american causes are lining your pockets and picking bananas.
Britworker, your previous appraisal was accurate. I am a Panama resident and I know how lawmakers there are all the time looking for this kind of all-paid trips. In regard to your racist comment about Latin American causes, it is a painting of you that makes innecessary to add anything else.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@9 As the criminals they are in the eyes of Argentina, who is of course supported by Panama, then why were Elsby and Ormond not denied entry to Panama in April. They were clearly holders of fraudulent passports since they are truly Argentine citizens who have been flouting Argentine law -- and by not knuckling under to the Argentines, violating the rights and destinies of the Argentine people. I'm sure that if right is truly on the fascist Malvanista's side, they could have at minimum bust them on tax evasion (or anything, telling the truth Argentine inflation numbers for example) and extradite them to Argentina for trial and justice... or at minimum just they could have sent a “message” by deport and sending them “home” on the first plane out of Panama City to London.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So whose side is Panama ~really~ on?
Or is Panama's official stance nothing more than lip service to an emotionally unstable Argentina with whom they must live and with whom they must cope on a daily basis in the name of Latin American ”solidarity. But in reality, they have no interest in changing the status quo that has the islanders exercising what is truly their fundamental human right of self-determination. And in the meanwhile they will talk to the adults in the Falklands since the children in Buenos Aires can't hold guns to the Islands heads like the Junta, who they still celebrate on their coinage, did in 1982.
When the oil starts flowing we will see who is friends with who and how invested they are in their 'so called' latam causes.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Panama are keeping their options open. “We cant decide or determine the position any of the two sides must assume”. Who are they trying to kid? It's pathetic and insulting that they expect the UK to believe such a spineless foreign policy.
I'm sorry but you get sick of reading this bullshit after a while.
More Hispanics to the Malvinas Islands... after all this is Latin America.
Sep 17th, 2013 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hopefully that the scoundrels keep paying travel to the Malvinas Argentinas Islands to ALL the Ibero Americans.
Sep 18th, 2013 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0In this way will help reinforce the knowledge “in situ” of the incredible and anachronistic situation of a Latin American territory transformed in the last jewel the once “great” British Empire, the most tyrannical and colonialist of the world.
Alternatively it could demonstrate that Argentinians are nothing more than a desperate bunch of wannabe land grabbers.
Sep 18th, 2013 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0@15 Yes yes, a colonialist tyranny where it isn't a crime to own foreign currency without the state's permission. A colonialist tyranny where media that is critical of the government isn't broken up. A colonialist tyranny that doesn't fine you for showing films dubbed in the native tongue and adjudicated in part by the people who would get proceeds fines (I mean COME on!). A colonialist tyranny where ordinary citizens aren't for forbidden to do the math right on inflation statistics when the true declining value of the currency is there for all to see (I mean REALLY, come ON!) A colonialist tyranny that has a vast amount of self rule rather than being micromanaged for the benefit of the mainlanders from a town across the sea in a province that seems to have been created only recently as an afterthought to “manage” territory far in excess than what it truly holds but rather covets and will never truly hold because the people who they crave to step on will never forget or forgive their illegal fascist invasion and occupation in 1982 that it proudly celebrates on coinage like the Japanese celebrating the invasion of Manchuria, the German invasion of Poland and all the other shameful events other countries have the decency not to celebrate on THEIR coins.
Sep 18th, 2013 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In my high school psychology section, I believe the phrase for this was called “projection.”
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Sep 18th, 2013 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh yeah because the Spanish empire was just lovely with lots of rainbows and bunny Rabbits. You fitly usurping thief, give you're property up to a true South American and leave your illegal colonial state.
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Sep 21st, 2013 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Hopefully that the scoundrels keep paying travel”
Makes a change from your country which is always scrounging money off someone else (without paying it back, of course.)
“once “great” British Empire, the most tyrannical and colonialist of the world.”
When it comes to tyranny and genocide the British Empire could not possibly compete with the Spanish Empire, who lost most of their empire due to revolt and did a good job in eliminating as many South American Indians as possible, carried on by genocidal Argentina.
When you tried your favourite trick of invading people in 1982 you thought could not fight back (typical Argentine military tactic) you got a nasty surprise, didn't you?
There is a huge British Commonwealth (ie countries previously under British rule who wish to maintain a connection with Britain) which seems to neutralise your argument that the British Empire was the most tyrannical.
Why is there no Spanish Commonwealth Jose?
@15 'Argentina's Malvinas Islands'. ????
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