MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
'Malvinas Islands'/'Gaucho Rivero' 50-Peso bill to honor Argentine fallen soldiers
As part of the commemorations of the “Day of the Veterans and Fallen in the Falklands War”, or the 32nd anniversary of the start of the South Atlantic conflict with the UK, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez unveiled a new 50-Peso bill that will carry a map of the Malvinas Islands and is to be soon issued. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesProbably will be used for toilet paper , if they use such a commodity,
Apr 02nd, 2014 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0WOW! Just like the 1000 Yen note celebrating the brave soldiers of Imperial Japan who served in Nanjing at the start of 1939! I understand the the US is including a 25-c state coin celebrating the Wounded Knee. I guess every country in the world has to keep up with that classic 1982 Deutschemark that celebrates the soldiers who maintained the Kobylisy “training range” who were just “following ze orders.”
Apr 02nd, 2014 - 11:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a great look that is for you Argentina! Wear your unrepentant fascism with pride! You know, just like how the above listed countries have NEVER did.
Quality .... A note to commemorate the invasion of a small peaceful island natiion which ended in national humiliation with a know murderer on the rear ... there should be a picture of Thatcher for helping rid Argentina of their military dictatorship,, who knows if Thatcher hadn't retaliated innocent Argentines might still be getting dropped into the ocean to this day .
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 12:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3 as horrible as the airplane drops were, if the military had stayed in power, Nestor and Cristina may have eventually found themselves on one of them.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 01:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yet CFK is happy happy to symbolise the same military's actions that led to a war and loss of life.
Regarding the 50 peso note......it's just an excuse to keep printing more money (with CFK's 10% cut of course).
Kelper new bill
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 03:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.lse.co.uk/ShareChart.asp?sharechart=RKH
Gaucho Rivero....hmmm
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 06:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0He was the chap who murdered Matthew Brisbane right?
Matthew Brisbane was Luis Vernets appointed deputy and leader of the “Vernet community.
Gaucho Rivero ”led an uprising” against the UK occupation.
Thus as of 1834 the Vernet community, his own appointed deputy, were clearly supportive of the UK position.
Kinda destroys the Argtard argument
Malvinista logic is a wonderful thing
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 08:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Some months after the entire population of the islands was expelled by the dastardly Brits and forbidden to return, Argentine National Hero El Asasino Rivero had contrived to be miraculously still there, along with his victims.
Some Dr. Who thing, probably.
Most prominent among the victims was the agent of Argentine “governor” Luis Vernet. Murdering the Argentine governor's agent counts as a heroic rebellion against the British authorities, even though no British authorities were actually present on the islands.
Of course it does.
And who cares if the Argentine National Academy of History decided El Asasino Rivero was no more than a common criminal. He's just the job to put in Lone Ranger pose on a 50-peso note to celebrate Junta Invasion day.
Ironic that Antonio Rivero probably did more to damage the Argentine claim than anyone else...
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0How many of these will you need to hand over to buy a cup of coffee next year?
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 08:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Chuckle chuckle
Hmm, a worthless banknote in support of a worthless claim?
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 09:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0....and all this verbal garbage from Argentinian banana republic has no impact whatsoever in UK. Nothing in the media, even the barmy Guardian.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 09:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bahahahaha
Just for the sake of historical accuracy, what was wrong with an artist's impression of thousands of argie “soldiers” discarding their weapons and fleeing for their lives? Or there could have been an impression of Pucaras blown apart and burning on Pebble Island. Or the piles of argie surrendered weapons!
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0So what can I get for 50 peso an old rifle never fired dropped once
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Peso is worthless no matter what they put on it.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Last year it was Eva Peron, now it's a celebration of a murderous military regime (which they didn't support - honest).
Soon it won't matter because the Argentine people will be using it for toilet paper.
Some desperate states, do desperate things to give a false impression, and to retain power..
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ Antonio “Gaucho” Rivero, a South American cowboy and farm-hand born in Entre Rios province who allegedly led a revolt in the Malvinas Islands in 1833, resisting the British 'illegal occupation' of the archipelago.”
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Doesn't the fact that Rivero did not resist Onslow in 1833 make Rivero a traitor in Argentina's eyes?
Axel Arg-comment?
Doesn't the fact that Rivero accepted Onslow's silver to stay in the Falklands rather than get the boat back to BA make him a traitor in Argentina's eyes?
Axel Arg-comment?
@6 MonkeyMagic
Gaucho Rivero ”led an uprising” against the UK occupation.
“ Thus as of 1834 the Vernet community, his own appointed deputy, were clearly supportive of the UK position.”
Axel Arg-comment?
It's a pity that the Falkland Islands MLA's and William Hague are too slow to notice this.
Also, prior to the Rivero murders the British are happy to send a ship once a year (without a military presence or a governor from Britain).
Rivero's murders cause the British to return in January 1834, but to establish a permanent British colony as opposed to merely letting Vernet's colony to continue.
Doesn't that make Rivero a traitor to Argentina?
Axel Arg?
@8 ECP
“Ironic that Antonio Rivero probably did more to damage the Argentine claim than anyone else...”
Excellent summary for the above.
Away from the analysis that Rivero has f***ed up, rather than supported Argentina's claims, if the Falkland Islanders were not as diplomatic, and politically astute as they are (even if the MLA's miss out some obvious analysis of history), it would be great to see the Pebble Island raid depicted on a Falkland banknote (as @ 12 Conqueror).
Alas I fear Conqueror, it would be aambitious for any artist to depict the Argentine surrender monkeys and piles of discarded weapons from 1982 as to the best of my knowledge Falkland Island banknotes are not printed on flipchart sized paper.
Now come on! How would you get that money into a wallet????
As Rome burns...
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Those poor lads were worth more than 50 pesos. Yet another insult from a Government that just doesn't care.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Britain is 'disappointed' with America over Falkland Islands, finds Commons report
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 05:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0America's failure to back the principle of national self-determination over Falklands continues to dog Britain's otherwise solid 'special relationship' with the US, MPs say”
it seems the uk in this issue is lonelier than hitler in the friendship´s day.
How did Guacho BLoggs lead an uprising against the British in the Falklands when the nearest British presence was in Rio?
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And, just asking, but weren't those folks he killed all working for the same person that modern day Arentina claims represented their government claims to having colonised the Falklands prior to 1833?
You know, the ones who the British supposedly kicked out...
cos, even just reading wikipedia, it kinda doesn't make much sense...
at all...
unless he was in more than one place at a time, and wasnt kicked out in 1833 (like the argies claim everybody was).. and on and on and on...
sense, this doesnt make...
#19
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The bottom line is that it doesn't matter. I don't think the USA will go to war or boycott the UK over this issue, so dream on as usual. The Status Quo will remain.. Tough titty.
As to friendship matters with Hitler, wasn't he one of Peron's role models ?
IIRC Rivero is the main reason the Falklands aren't Argentine today. Good pick KFC.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 021
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you may be right about perón.
now, it seems churchill was hitler´s role model.
“Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made”
http://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Empire-World-That-Made/dp/B00BDHWK4I
http://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Empire-World-That-Made/dp/B00BDHWK4I
not to mention british concentration camps in south africa.
@23
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“not to mention british concentration camps in south africa.”
And rather than refusing to copy the mistakes Britain and your Nazi mates in Germany made, your country went one better by throwing women out of aircraft into the South Atlantic---- just 30 years ago .
Oh and I believe Argentina were prone to giving political prisoners acid baths and gouging priest's eyes out by the side of the road-well done for doing worse things than we did over 100 years ago!
http://www.atfa.org
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Watch Argentina Defy a U.S. Judge
@23
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did you look up the author of your link?
Johann Eduard Hari (born 21 January 1979) is a British writer and journalist who has written regular columns for The Independent (London) and The Huffington Post and made contributions to several other publications. In 2011, he was suspended from The Independent following multiple charges of plagiarism and was separately accused of making malicious edits of several of his critics' Wikipedia pages under a pseudonym,[1] an allegation he later admitted to.[2] The exposed plagiarism led to his being forced to return his 2008 Orwell Prize[3] and later was a contributing factor in his decision to leave The Independent.[4]
Nice CV of the author on the piece about Churchill.
A piece of shit written by another, well you can guess the rest.
Keep up the amusing work!
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Apr 03rd, 2014 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the difference is that the junta did all those atrocities to our own people and that ws almost 40 years ago.
the uk is doing the same atrocities since ages around the world, even during the 21st century.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/time-to-properly-investigate-uk-war-crimes-in-iraq-9065023.html
BQ paulcedron ?
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The parrilla was used in a number of countries in South America, including Argentina during the dirty war in the 1970s and 1980s
The Spanish word parrilla [paˈriʎa] means a cooking grill or barbecue of the type commonly found in South American countries. By gruesome analogy, the metal frame used in the torture was given the same name because of its appearance and because the victim was placed on top of it like the meat on a barbecue. The parrilla is both the metal frame and the method of torture that uses it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrilla_(torture)
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Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0parrilla was the name the dictatorship gave to those metal frames where they put their own countrymen to applied the picana eléctrica.
they had a lot more methods of torture.
now, the main reponsibles of those crimes were judged and jailed for life.
what happened with blair, for instance?
nothing?
and what happened with the dozens of british war criminals in iraq?
according to hague, nothing will happen.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/12/william-hague-iraq-war-prosecutions
Argentine police arrested over Salta 'torture video'
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18921310
Police brutality should be front-page news in Argentina
Argentina's president and the press are mutually hostile – but it is in both their interests to tackle this stain on the nation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18921310
Posted this on the wrong thread, trouble is at this time of year, every year, they all seem to be the same, just a variation on the theme, still here goes, second time of trying.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In 2007, Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, said of The Independent: “The emphasis on views, not news, means that the reporting is rather thin, and it loses impact on the front page the more you do that.”[35] In a 12 June 2007 speech British Prime Minister Tony Blair called The Independent a “viewspaper”, saying it “was started as an antidote to the idea of journalism as views not news. That was why it was called the Independent. Today it is avowedly a viewspaper not merely a newspaper”.[36] The Independent criticised Blair's comments the following day.[37][38] The newspaper has since ironically changed format to include a 'Viewspaper' insert in the centre of the regular newspaper, designed to feature most of the opinion columns and arts reviews. In the 1990s, satirical magazine Private Eye frequently referred to The Independent as The Indescribablyboring.[39]
Like I said on the other thread, I particularly liked the rather apt, “Indescribablyboring” bit.
In Argentina, the worst prison systems are in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Mendoza. The prisons themselves are in horrible condition, and the prisoners are treated inhumanely.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://argentina-natalieeb.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/prison-conditions-in-argentina.html
23/24/29.@
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 056’’@
it is just the Uk is increasingly alone in this matter.
On a deserted islands a million miles from human contact,
No phones, communication or satellite,
There they sit eat and sleep,
Great Britain, the Falklands, and a few others, all alone, deserted by the rest of the world,
And fully supported by 56@
Yet ignored by the great and mighty Argentina and its empire, ruled by empress CFK and her cohorts,
The whole world , slaves to this deluded twit,
Yet Britain and its few islands, alone in paradise, freedom and at peace,
And all because 56@
i do not want anything to do with the islets,
oh well,
lolol..
BUENOS AIRES – Female prisoners in Argentine jails live in “inhuman” conditions of confinement that include mistreatment, torture and health problems, according to a report by non-governmental organizations presented in Buenos Aires.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=360077&CategoryId=14093
BUENOS AIRES, May 21 2012 (IPS) - Nearly 29 years after the demise of the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina, successive democratic governments have failed to find a humane way of running the prison system. Preventable deaths, torture and appalling conditions for inmates continue to be reported.
http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=360077&CategoryId=14093
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Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it seems they have the same problem in the uk.
i mean the same problem of argentina, a 3rd world country.
and they say they are a 1st world country?
as they say, the uk is the 3rd world´s country of europe
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/13/abuse-teenage-boys-detention-centre-crime
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/13/abuse-teenage-boys-detention-centre-crime
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/13/abuse-teenage-boys-detention-centre-crime
@35 Only in a Banana Republic
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Watch Argentina Defy a U.S. Judge
http://www.atfa.org/
35@
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you tend to rely on to many papers..
The UK is a 3rd world country of Europe.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Really?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_League_for_Penal_Reform
Two enquiries:
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 01) Why does Argentina create a bank note commemorating a murderer?
2) Why does paulcedron only seem capable of reproducing articles from those well respected rags, The Guardian and The Independent. Dreadfull papers which are, of course. on the verge of bankruptcy because nobody reads them any more except paulcedron.
Apparently the US flag on the moon has been bleached white by the sun. so if aliens visit us they'll assume the Argentinians landed there.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@39
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guardian Profile - Pablo Cedron
https://id.theguardian.com/profile/id/10307019/public
@39 Gordo1
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 01) Why does Argentina create a bank note commemorating a murderer?
Yep, they should have put the Argentine war hero Pedro Giachino on the reverse?
Oh thats right... he was just another murderous Argentine thug http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/156103/archives-show-links-in-repression-malvinas
@29
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ what happened with blair, for instance?”
Can't argue with that paulcedron - B. Liar is a self serving tosser and the biggest con merchant to be PM in UK-I think that's who CFK tries to emulate.
#29
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0good for you Paul ! Alleged means guilty in your twisted mind.
#35
As they say... who are they and quote chapter and verse.
You are good at giving your opinion and attributing it to “the whole world”....a standard Argie ploy.
#35
Interesting . He is a full time troll.
@Pablo
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 01,800 comments in just 18 months??
Any content in that?
Must love to listen to himself.
45 troy
Apr 04th, 2014 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Any content in that? ”
nah, just about rugby and football
@DannyBerger.....hurry up to change it...it is a five dollar bank note....just for this week..next?..who knows?
Apr 04th, 2014 - 02:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Apr 04th, 2014 - 04:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0JA JA JA.
Apr 04th, 2014 - 04:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0YOUR GOING TO NEED ONE OF THESE FOR YOUR COUNTDOWN.
www.gizmag.com/strontium-lattice-atomic-clock-nist.../30563/
Yay Rich is back, you ok little fella?
Apr 04th, 2014 - 07:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Once we are homeless can I come stay with you, I'll get my carers licence first then you won't have to pay one.
@48
Apr 04th, 2014 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0“BEAUTIFUL MONEY,”
Worth practically F.A.
“KELPER´S ARE HOMELESS !!!!”
But they are there and you want to be but aren't ha ha!
“PIRATES GO HOME !!!”
They did go home, in June 1982 back to Argentina, defeated, demoralised and spat on by the people they fought for.
When our marines surrendered in April-they returned with the task force and raised the Union Jack in June-your lot didn't come back-that's the difference-ha ha!
“END OF COLONY JAJAJA”
Correct ,the Falkland Islands ceased to remain a colony in the 1980s-thanks to you!
“COUNTDOWN = KELPERS = HOMLESS”
Suggest a date for that-how about a prediction that Argentina will force the Islanders out in 2015 so I can bet money on it-and win?
“JAJAJJAA”
So you can say the word Yes in German
Here's one that applies to you-Dumkopf.
I see a real problem with the images of The Falklands on the bills!
Apr 04th, 2014 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They're missing all the oil rigs!
Bahahahaha
A NECESARY ACLARATION.
Apr 04th, 2014 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I read the words of a representant of the government from the islands, in the headlines of cn23, but i couldn't know who was he or she, however, that representant complaint about what he or she considered like a celebration by arg., of the invasion of 1982, when actualy that's no more than a despisable distortion of what we commemorate the 2nd of april. What we do every 2nd of april, is to honour all those soldiers who fought in the war of the south atlantic in 1982, in fact, we can't not to do it, but it doens't mean that millions of us are pro galtieri. In the same way that britain honours it's war veterans, we do the same with our's.
2nd of april of 1982, is not remembered as a happy day for us.
Anyway i know that many of you will start reminding me the fact that plaza de mayo was full of people, who celebrated the junta's decision that day, however you all fail in analizing the context of the country that year, in fact, galtieri said that day that we had recovered the sovereignty of the islands, without any rancour, which was actualy an utter lie, beside, during all the dictatorhsip, there was not any freedom of press, all the information was controlled by the junta, which had intervened all the chanels, on the other hand, all the information that came from the islands during the war, was all distorted on behalf of the interests of the junta.
Respecting gaucho rivero, i can only say that i recognize that i have never investigated deeply about him, i only know that he resisted the british usurpation, but for being honest, i have never been interested in investigating serioulsy about his actions.
@53 You knew how bad the Junta was. You knew what happened to people who rocked the Junta's boat. You know what a loose lip around the wrong people would bring. You knew a phone call was all it took to bring to close a personal vendetta. You were not locked down like North Korea or Cuba. People had radios. People whispered to people they trusted. People knew. The Junta was unpopular and talk of democratic reform (and the comeuppance that would accompany it) was it the air along with anti-Junta demonstrations. That's why they invaded, they knew that enough of you would be a bunch of well-trained suckers that would shield them from reform and buy them a “few more years”. And you cheered when the same fascist jackboot that was on your necks that you were about to throw off was being placed firmly on the Falklanders'. There was no price too great for Argentina to pay so long as you knew that the Falklanders were suffering with you, perhaps more so.
Apr 04th, 2014 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You have no one to lie to here, only yourself.
I've been following the 'Malvinas' issue on this site for a couple of years now with amusement and bewilderment for a couple of years now... It's been frustrating highly entertaining in equal measure. I've felt compelled to 'join' the discussion due to the epic stupidity, hypocrisy and almost comical comments made by the argentinians over the water. There must be a genetic disposition for radical stupidity in the 'Latino' bloodstream...(even the mother country, spain didn't shed fascism until the '70's) because every colony that Spain had in the Americas gas been a basket case since their inception....couldn't organise sh:t and have a passive hard-on for been threatened and screwed.. (Guess it's a catholic thing) . There is no historical claim to the islands (A'tina would have gone to the ICJ if there was) and how a 'Nation' can ask for the FALKLANDS to be handed over, after the UK was actively trying to negotiate a settlement prior to the invasion and decided to invade illegally, cause the deaths of thousands (more servicemen committing suicide than in combat), billions to the british taxpayer...... Shows what an utterly fuc:ked and irrational psyche the Argentinians have. it's comparable to a a spoilt child in a shop screaming ' I want it, I want it, but it's mine,... Even though it isn't. Show some fuc:king dignity Argentina, grow up and sort your own problems out. As for the 'Pirates'... When I see indigenous faces on in Argentina on the TV, heading big business, in your government, maybe even in the casa rosada, (if you havn't murdered them all) then you can play the colonialist card.....until then, all you Spanish speaking Europeans of Spanish, German, Italian descent do us all a favour, stop whining like bitches and shut the Fuc:k up!!!! Cheers
Apr 04th, 2014 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Axel is too stupid to realize the Ks are lying to him just as much or maybe more than the Junta.
Apr 04th, 2014 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At least crime and the economy were decent when the military ruled Argentina!
I bet there are a lot of people hoping the Military does it job and protects the constitution from those thugs.
53:
Apr 04th, 2014 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What we do every 2nd of April, is to honour all those soldiers who fought in the war of the south Atlantic in 1982,
You honour your fallen when you are threatened or attacked,
They defend their country and freedom, and are then commemorated and honoured,
Argentina deliberately illegally and maliciously, invaded a tiny little unarmed peaceful people
And was directly responsible for the deaths of over 700 people,
You abused, threaten , intimidate , harass , blockade, these innocent people,
And you celebrate this pathetic horrible malicious crime,
Totally and utterly disgraceful.
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”What we do every 2nd of April, is to honour all those soldiers who fought in the war of the south Atlantic in 1982.
Apr 04th, 2014 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Conveniently forgetting you were directly responsible for their deaths in the first place!
@56 the Junta completely wrecked the economy, that´s why they went to war in the first place.
Apr 04th, 2014 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No junta to blame this time around.
Apr 05th, 2014 - 12:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps if we produced a £1 note with a picture of HMS Conquerer printed on one side they might get how inappropriate this is. I could be wrong maybe they're following our precedent after all our old £5 notes used to have a picture of the Duke of Wellington WINNING at the battle of waterloo on them. Ah! I see not quite the same.
Apr 05th, 2014 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cristina Fernandez
Apr 05th, 2014 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Should be ashamed
But she aint.
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paul-the-idiot-cedron
Apr 05th, 2014 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0claims that there are “british concentration camps in south africa”
argentina still making fools of themselves! don't they realise with all these cheap stunts support for them becomes less likely and they become to object of ridicule! you simply don't celebrate a military loss, especially when your in the wrong for starting it in the first place, you couldn't make this up, even more funny when you consider the peso is worthless anyway and even their people would rather have the dollar, shot themselves in the foot again. pretty sad really when they trying to brain wash their own population like this.
Apr 05th, 2014 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No country or the UN will ever hand over a free democracy, to a deluded dictatorship,
Apr 06th, 2014 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it will never ever happen,
#63
Apr 06th, 2014 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To be fair, there were in 1900 but not in the meaning of Nazi extermination camps in WW2
66 Clyde
Apr 06th, 2014 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They were more like refugee camps to shelter the displaced families of the Boers.
“Concentration Camp” did not deserve the same connotation then as it does today.
There were casualties from illness and lack of food and supplies.
Ironically, it was a war, and much of the camp supplies were destroyed or intercepted by the Boers.
Boer home remedies, like relying on laying warm bloody animal pelts on chests of patients, did little to help them.
Pablo Cedron and Marcos just parrot a few spectacular headlines with reading or understanding.
Classic misleading and “misinformation”
Has anyone else had a close look at that new note? A map of the Falkland islands superimposed on a map of Chilean Patagonia?????
Apr 07th, 2014 - 02:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Backed, of course , by that stylised 1930's 'Wild West' cowboy.....
As ever, knicking stuff at every level is the Diego way.... http://www.anorak.co.uk/393267/news/argentinas-fap-party-pays-tribute-to-falklands-anniversary-with-nicked-picture-from-band-of-brothers-poster.html/?
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Apr 07th, 2014 - 03:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Happy Anniversary,
Band of “Heroes”
@53
Apr 07th, 2014 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Respecting gaucho rivero, i can only say that i recognize that i have never investigated deeply about him, i only know that he resisted the british usurpation,”
I am sure you are pleased that Rivero elected to live under the British flag in 1833 when he and the other gauchos were given silver by Cpt Onslow instead of Vernet's worthless promissory notes.
I am sure you are glad he murdered Vernet's deputy, Brisbane.
I am sure that you are glad that Rivero murdered Don Paso (who was from South America, another guy from South America that preferred living on the Islands under the British flag, given the choice in 1833).
Oh yes, the capitaz a Frenchman , Simon was murdered by Rivero, so your hero was not limited to killing British members of the settlement but went on a multinational killing spree.
In fact I believe Rivero also killed a German born settler.
Ahh incidentally Axel, if you bothered to research properly, you will find that Simon had descendents that lived on in the Islands, well into the 19th century, as did his son's mother Carmelita Penny (typical British name eh Axel?)a black lady (not an 'implant ' from Britain incidentally but one of Vernet's slaves freed by Onslow).
I find it difficult to see how Rivero revolted against the British when he agreed to stay under the British flag in 1833.
Doesn't that make him a traitor, Axel?
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