MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Argentine magistrate looks into Antarctica campaign over costs and nepotism
Argentine Federal magistrate Luis Rodríguez has ordered Supreme Court accountancy experts to prepare a report on the 2012/13 Antarctic campaign including two tenders and extraordinary expenses all of which involving an estimated 30 million pesos, approximately 4 million dollars. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesRecently pgerman was telling us all that it is Argentina that bears the heavy cost of helping everyone else out in the Antarctic and South Atlantic.
Apr 17th, 2014 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can see why it seems so expensive now.
As for the Almirante Irizar. It caught fire SEVEN YEARS ago last week.
US$300 million later and still not working.
All seems very murky. Glad it's being investigated now.
Apr 17th, 2014 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0let's just hope the investigators don't get targeted or corrupted themselves.
1. He was lying, either last year or the year before The Rgs had to put out an emergency call to the other bases there because they had no fuel and were starving. I can't remember if the USA or UK ended up rescuing them.
Apr 17th, 2014 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3 - I think it was us, from our base down there. It was around the time when the gov was going through another of its rabid Malvinas phases. Pretty magnanimous on our part.
Apr 17th, 2014 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0I was being asked by an Argentinean friend the other day how they seem to have gone from having an easy life to food going up by at least 10% since the beginning of the year. He wanted to know where it went wrong. I explained the economic arguments and he sort of got them. However, the thing that really struck home was pointing out that if a country goes from having lots of cash to suddenly being in the sh1t it's normally because someone somewhere along the line has nicked it. This is just one small example of rampant corruption...
Putridjelli and his little wine-gum of a son are going to be questioned regarding corruption!
Apr 17th, 2014 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can't believe it. Oh, oh, yes I can when I think about it!
Ha, ha, ha.
@ No. 4. Welsh Wizard - you can trace it to the point in time Argentina changed its constitution from one that held “negative” rights, basically protecting its people from government coercion and allowing free enterprise, to one of “positive” rights, where the government now had to produce and provide benefits for people - healthcare, school, pensions, work, housing.
Apr 17th, 2014 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This story tells you everything you need to know about Argentina,will good and honest people ever get in control?
Apr 17th, 2014 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do they even exist?
Have the electorate no savvy at all???
Well! It's the first time I have heard anybody using the expression Argentina's 'Antarctica Campaign'!
Apr 18th, 2014 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It sounds extremely 'military'.
On the other hand it might just be Mercopress using journalese.
@ 8 GeoffWard2
Apr 18th, 2014 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“'Antarctica Campaign'! It sounds extremely 'military'”.
Didn’t they have military equipment in Antarctica and may still have, even though it’s against international agreements.
But, heh, we are talking Argentina here!
@ 9 Jack
Apr 18th, 2014 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Baby, come back......Via Dão!
Of course they staff their Antarctic bases with military families, we all know that, but the use of the phrase 'Antarctic Campaign' is new.
Apr 19th, 2014 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think this a bit of vexatiousness by Mercopress - anybody know different?
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Apr 20th, 2014 - 05:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wrote “Every single time an accident happened in the South Atlantic Argentina had to help. Every single time a natural disaster happened, either in the South Atlantic or in the south of Chile, Argentina had to assist. Every single time the islanders needed cheap services not provided by the UK Argentina had to pay for them or accept the usage of their resources.” Was I lying?
When did the UK, or the Islanders, assist any Argentine ship or vessel in the South Atlantic?
Do you remember any situation with the Uk assisting an Argentine ship? Please, let me know because I cannot remember one.
By the way, Yankeeboy, it seems that you don't remember the details of the HMS Endurance last visit to Argentine soil....
From my point of view, it is quite clear that CFK, and her henchmen, are thieves, all of them. Common Argentine people are now realizing the true. It's late to open the eyes so, they will have to suffer the consequences of loosing another decade. More poverty and suffering to regular people. Sooner or later Argentine people will have to learn not to vote peronist candidates....
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