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Falklands or Malvinas: uproar in Argentina with YPF tourist guide
The internet tourist guide from Argentina's nationalized oil and gas company YPF describes the Malvinas as Falklands, Puerto Argentino as Stanley, and Isla Gran Malvina as West Falkland, claim several Argentine media. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesYes I'm sure that this is difficult for Argentines to accept…namely the truth.
May 03rd, 2014 - 06:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0When you've been fed lies your whole life the truth becomes a bitter pill to swallow.
The correct name for the Islands is the Falkland Islands. End of. Argentina can try and rename things as much as they like, but since the Islands aren't Argentine it makes little difference.
But between this YPF tourist guide and the Argentine tax office designating the Falklands as none Argentine territory, it shows that the Argentine authorities know that the Falklands are British and the everything the Argentine government spews forth is just propaganda and lies.
Chuckle chuckle, Crissy !
May 03rd, 2014 - 06:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0:-D
Mais oui, Argentina.
May 03rd, 2014 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0You have it correct at last! lol!
I had to chuckle about the “uproar” in Argentina.
Doesn't take much to upset them, ha ha ha.
I could rename Buenos Aires “Timbuktu” if I wanted to and start producing maps to that effect.
May 03rd, 2014 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina - the land of make believe. Lol. Just like INDEC's make believe growth and inflation statistics...
May 03rd, 2014 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Funnier still when Argies work out that Malvinas is just the Spanish translation from the French Malouines in the first place! Oh and the name Falklands goes back to 1690 as well.
May 03rd, 2014 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Even funnier when we know that Chile and Uruguay both call us either Falkland Islands or Islas Falklands in their communications with us!
News for argies. You can't get to “Islas Malvinas”. If you happen to legally get to a group of Islands in the South Atlantic, your passsport will be stamped for entry into the Falkland Islands. Because that's their proper name. “Islas Malvinas” is just a spanish adaptation of a French name. France never asserted sovereignty. Spain only bought France's settlement. Nothing else. British sovereignty was legally asserted. Sovereignty cannot be “inherited” as argieland repeatedly claims. It just isn't part of international law and never has been!
May 03rd, 2014 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Falkland Islands forever!
Don't you just love it when all the claptrap comes to nothing!
May 03rd, 2014 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think I can hear a female sreaming from here: I wonder if it's TMBOA?
Ha, ha, ha.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha
May 03rd, 2014 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's the problem that's their names
May 03rd, 2014 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What´s the problem. It´s not a semantic issue it´s a political one. Sooner or later those islands will return to Argentina. British visitors are wellcome in Argentina -continental and insular-. So you can call them Martha if you wish. Regards!!!
May 03rd, 2014 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And Aliens may well break the speed record,
May 03rd, 2014 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina has more chance of becoming a Falkland's enclave, or land colony..lol
Right - now we have to get rid of that mis-labled “Argentine Sea” on Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/w305u
May 04th, 2014 - 01:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Islas Malvinas forever. Pirates still have kings? hahaha
May 04th, 2014 - 01:39 am - Link - Report abuse 014# Islas Malvinas forever. Pirates still have kings?
May 04th, 2014 - 04:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes Leopold, the “Lost Malvinas” along with: Agartha, Annwn, Camelot, cloud cuckoo land, el dorado, Garden of Eden, etc, etc etc. What do all of these places have in common?
Pirates have Queens and Kings and wealth and capabilities and hope and pirates have gotta da Falklands!
@14
May 04th, 2014 - 06:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0My gosh, has the Queen died?
It seems that the Argentine media are attempting to blame YPF for Google not being part of the Malvinista movement. That's about as logical as anything else surrounding this issue in Argentina.
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May 04th, 2014 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0is this what they teach you argies at school is it,
the British are pirates,
how brainwashed is that.
lf l were in Argentina & l had the money, l'd be educating my kids in another country.
May 04th, 2014 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0too true..
May 04th, 2014 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0@11
May 04th, 2014 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sooner or later those islands will return to Argentina?
How?
European Union nomenclature in all of its two dozen languages save Spanish (Malvinas) and French (Malouines) seems to be Falklands + “Islands” in that language. For example, in Portuguese is Ilhas Falkland: EUR-Lex: http://goo.gl/4EWCdD
May 04th, 2014 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0@11
May 04th, 2014 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cannot be “returned” to Argentina, when they have never legitimately been Argentinian in the first place, can they.
Any more than they can “disrupt the territorial integrity”, of an Argentina which did not exist, in any shape or form, until long after the Islands were established British territory.
The YPF Guide was correct. To my knowledge, it did not call Buenos Aires, “Malos Aires.”
May 04th, 2014 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
@11 & 14 Because you're new, let me explain this gently. EVERY argie will die in the attempt. Got it?
May 04th, 2014 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 023 LOL !!
May 04th, 2014 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bhaaahahaha!
May 04th, 2014 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ilsen
May 04th, 2014 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0nothing has changed...
Pirates are cool
May 05th, 2014 - 06:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Its called the falklands 150 years uks got more chance of getting the US back as a colony
Love to have been a Pirate.
May 05th, 2014 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Coming home with your holds full of Spanish gold
Which they stole from the Aztecs & lncas
So the guide reflects reality? I can see why Argentina are up in arms then... that nation is upset by reality....
May 05th, 2014 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0har har me harties,
May 05th, 2014 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0walk ye plank ye Spanish offspring,,lol
im Argentinian actually..
walk it anyway eye need a laugh...lol
This is really making me LARF!
May 05th, 2014 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*puts on Sarf London accent for no particular reason*
YPF
May 06th, 2014 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0has most of south America under Spanish eyes..lol
Think, how many generations back can you trace your ancestors in South America?
May 09th, 2014 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's called a 'Freudian slip' when one unconsciously tell the truth instead of the planned for lie.
May 09th, 2014 - 10:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Besides: “and is also the denomination given by Mercosur, Unasur, ALADI, the Ibero-American summit and other regional organizations.”
They forgot to mention Mother Goose!
Still laughing at this.
May 10th, 2014 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0love the fact that the tiny little UK and the even smaller Falkland Islands can outrage a 'whole' continent!
Amateurs!
Fnnaarrr!!
Bitterly islanders will learn the common history of England and Argentina -they will not prevail in their aggresive stand-.
May 11th, 2014 - 01:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0#37 Right on Carlos!
May 11th, 2014 - 03:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina's history of human rights abuse, warmongering and aggression against smaller neighbours will catch up with them and they will be castigated by the International community.
There are enough decent countries in the world that will reject argentine colonial expansionism and ensure that they will not prevail in the Falklands or any other place that it has designs on.
37 fercastellanos
May 11th, 2014 - 07:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ ...they will not prevail in their aggressive stand ”
thanks for the 'fercast' - Argentina will never be allowed to take over the Falklands again - CFK is a stinker !!
@6
May 11th, 2014 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Funnier still when Argies work out that Malvinas is just the Spanish translation from the French Malouines in the first place”
Yes-they steal everything, including names!
@11
.“ Sooner or later those islands will return to Argentina.”
What, when Patagonia is returned to its rightful inhabitants?
When Anglesey is returned to Outer Mongolia?
When the Faroes are returned to Chile?
When Guam is returned to Italy?
@37
“ Argentina -they will not prevail in their aggresive stand-”.
Too right amigo and if Argentina continues its aggressive stand and attacks the Falklands, your airforce will be wiped out for another 30 years (although the UK does not need to attack a country-we just let you destroy yourself-without any help from us-keep up the good work amigo)!
“Bitterly islanders will learn the common history of England and Argentina”
They already know it amigo, they do not receive Hitler -like indoctrination like kids do in Argentine schools.
@18
“lf l were in Argentina & l had the money, l'd be educating my kids in another country.”
In the camp or Stanley? (Less emphasis on Historical Fantasy, as a main subject).
Oooops! I betrayed the non English squatter derived word Camp (o).
Beware the Stealth Penguin of Doom!!
May 11th, 2014 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.
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just sayin'
@40 Pete Bog,
May 11th, 2014 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes Pete, Falklands would be fine.
After that, the UK or Europe.
l nearly said, anywhere but Argentina, but then l realised that there are places worse than them.
One of my kids wants to become a Doctor(of Medicine), so we are seriously looking at Edinburgh.
Poor Argentines, putting up with the government that they've got.
Poor Argentines. (per se).
May 12th, 2014 - 01:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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