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Tall ships parade in Punta del Este; Mujica invited to a reception in ARA Libertad
Uruguayan president Jose Mujica is scheduled to attend a reception on Saturday at Argentina's tall ship Libertad, which together with several similar vessels is participating in the '2014 Latin American Sails' tour of thirteen Latin American and Caribbean ports, and on Friday arrived to Punta del Este. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“ The group will be later joined by other units from Argentina's surface fleet. ”
Feb 22nd, 2014 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why , as protection against vulture funds ?
@1
Feb 22nd, 2014 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Or pirates lol.
The group will be later joined by other units from Argentina's surface fleet.
Feb 22nd, 2014 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Canoes ???????????????????
The Falklands garrison will need to be on high alert status!
Feb 22nd, 2014 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0The group will be later joined by other units from Argentina's surface fleet.
Feb 22nd, 2014 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lifeboats???????
Apparently Argies have never shirked from their responsibility of combating and defeating colonialism by any other country outside 'their' region, and hold fast to those values today. The Economist Feb15-21st includes a perspicacious summary of the sorry decline of Argentina from world prominence 100 years ago. And don't they just love celebrating an anniversary? It's touchingly nationalistic, really. There's probably a team of loyal public employees whose role it is to mark the national master calendar with every possible anniversary with the slightest publicity potential, in true bread and circuses tradition that harks back to Roman times. So, today it's the ambassador Uruguay who gets the spotlight, shared with that publicity-worn veteran, Libertad. It's a nice day here, and should be pleasant out on the river, if it doesn't rain later. I wouldn't be surprised if Madam President doesn't drop in unexpectedly from a helicopter to steal some of that limelight from D.D. - its only a short flight down the river from BA. Well, no, perhaps such a flight would be tempting Fate.
Feb 22nd, 2014 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The flagship Libertad which is also a naval school vessel is carrying 24 Uruguayan cadets on their graduation world tour”
Feb 22nd, 2014 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How can sailing along the coasts of SA be considered a “world tour”? Surely a “row around the park lake” would give them as much experience.
”organized by Argentina to celebrate the bicentenary of the naval battle of Montevideo (17 May, 1814), when an incipient Argentine squadron, under the command of Irish born Guillermo Brown, defeated close to Montevideo the Spanish fleet, thus ending Spain's colonial dominance in the region“
They only beat Spain FFS! By then a sad shadow of their former self.
But the laugh a minute has to be ”The group will be later joined by other units from Argentina's surface fleet. ” Ha, ha, ha.
Do they mean the US$ 1 million fibreglass motor cruiser presently lying in Piriapolis harbour (unless the scum have moved it) that was robbed by a member of the argie pack of thieves laughingly known as the government? I cannot imagine they have anything capable of making it across the Plate.
The Latins are visiting some Caribbean ports in tall ships?
Feb 23rd, 2014 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hope someone checks they are not rigged out for slave transportation before they let them drop anchor.
Mr. Mujica, please don't forget to take along a life jacket!
Feb 23rd, 2014 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
@7 : The navy of the Provincias Unidas that won this battle was made up almost entirely of British officers and sailors , yet another fact conveniently airbrushed out of Argentine history . San Martin's Ejercito de los Andes was mostly British officered too , as was Bolivar's army coming down from the north .
Feb 24th, 2014 - 08:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0If Britain hadn't taken an interest in the region from 1806 onwards , Argentina would never have risen to the prominence it achieved .
@ 9 Philippe
Feb 24th, 2014 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“No Money Pepe” has a head big enough, and empty enough, to keep him afloat should he “fall in”.
good to see that the argentine navy has been modernised!
Feb 24th, 2014 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0don't miss Puerto Williams, the southernmost City of the World, named in honour of John Williams Wilson. British -Chilean Commander in the Chilean Navy.
Feb 24th, 2014 - 11:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Falklanders and British People are welcome...
http://youtu.be/yX40TzcfM7c
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