MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Travel expenses to Falklands' Darwin Cemetery are not “abroad,” Argentine taxpayer cries
An Argentine national who visited the Darwin Cemetery on the Falkland Islands to pay his respects to the combatants fallen in the 1982 war was outraged upon his return that his credit card was billing him the surcharges recently created by Superminister of Economy Sergio Massa for expenses abroad. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI travelled to the island to pay tribute to the men who gave their lives that were defending us ????
Nov 09th, 2022 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just who were they defending ?, aggressive invaders more is more like it, indoctrination runs deep,
As an ex-commercial pilot he will, of course, have realised that he was in a different country when he had his passport stamped. He will also know that to fly to the Falkland Islands he would have, as a commercial pilot have to request permission to land in a foreign country.
Nov 10th, 2022 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse +1Why did he visit Darwin Cemetery? I have been there many times and there are no military dead buried there.
Perhaps he should have read the stamp in his passport?
Nov 10th, 2022 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse +1Geeeeee...
Nov 10th, 2022 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse -3A) So much fuss for such an irrelevant little burocratic glitch at the very end of the World...
An irrelevant glitch..., the Argie A.F.I.P. has already resolved...
B) I can see that them above Anglos are as glad for archaic passport stamps as they are with the new colour of their passports... :-)
C) I Tænk I have many of them auld souvenir-stamps on me expired passports...
Including some from the DDR..., South-Vietnam..., Poruguese Macau and Brutish Hong-Kong...
Capisce...?
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