MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas interested in increasing links and cooperation
A delegation from the UK embassy in Chile and a member from the Falklands Legislative Assembly met in Punta Arenas with the Magallanes region finance minister Christian Garcia to increase science and education cooperation links and promote people and economic exchanges. Many Chileans mainly from Punta Arenas have jobs in the Falklands. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“Many Chileans are regularly contracted to work in the Falklands and some have definitively married and established in the Islands, making it one of the main communities. Chilean national festivities are celebrated in the Falklands and Spanish is the second language.”
Oct 19th, 2016 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +7What could be more natural than for a SA country to have close, mutually beneficial ties and a shared community with Islands just off its coast?
Shared Antarctic interests and soon, oil and other energy resources to develop together. A natural combination.
Well done Chile!!
Good heavens! A South American nation talking to, and benefiting from, the Falkland Islanders... surely not? Perhaps a different SA nation, geographically closer to the Falklands could learn a valuable lesson from this?
Oct 20th, 2016 - 06:53 am - Link - Report abuse +4Indeed, I always say that Buenos Aires should send a fact finding delegation to Port Stanley in order to learn how to run a country.
Oct 20th, 2016 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Chilean Government: “We're behind you all the way Argentine amigos, and support your claim, but if you don't mind we won't be as stupid as you and make some money out of the Islands and learn from them.” And for the people of Chile, getting benefits from working in the Islands while Argentina loses out, it's keep the Islands British and stuff you, Argies! And how ironic, as previous South American settlers in the Islands have spread their culture and Spanish to bring that multinational culture the Argentine robots tell you doesn't exist. And become Islanders themselves rather than cut off their nose to spite their face.
Oct 20th, 2016 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Well done Chile...your women look a lot better than the Falkland pigs
Oct 20th, 2016 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Poor old arglands. If your idea of Argentine pulchritude is the likes of CFK, Malcorra and Bertone I can only say that you have lots of taste and all of it bad.
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