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A hot tempered ambassador and will Falklands' HMS Forth be allowed to dock in Chile
The leak of an audio message with no kind words from the Chilean foreign ministry top staff and advisors towards the Argentine ambassador in Chile, Rafael Bielsa, triggered a severe incident between the two neighboring countries which was finally contained by both sides with a cascade of compliments for the top figures involved. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWith all this common border and history, I cannot understand why Chile and Argentina are not the same country.
Jan 28th, 2023 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Our America is full of contradictions!
Historically, nation countries were typically separated by geographical features - borders often run along rivers, mountain ranges, etc.
Jan 28th, 2023 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse +5It is absolutely natural that Chile and Argentina would be separate countries, given that they are mostly separated by what was, at the time of their origin, the virtually impenetrable barrier of the Andes. It would have been very difficult to administer a single country divided by such a geographical barrier.
Viceroyalty of Plata. Had Spain created a political unity?
Jan 28th, 2023 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse -2The same liberator. Same language.
Perhaps the Andes are not the only challenge.
Hmmmmmmm...
Jan 28th, 2023 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse -4No Engrish military ships accepted no more in Chile...
No Engrish military airplanes accepted no more in Brasil...
Tænk is happy...
As long as you are happy, Trunks
Jan 29th, 2023 - 01:06 am - Link - Report abuse +1https://twitter.com/cesar_quezada/status/1616908999508606976
Copper...
Jan 29th, 2023 - 06:50 am - Link - Report abuse -2We are always happy to guest pretty, civil ladies as Boaty McFace...
Me only regret is not being in Patagonia to be able to smell her “new ship” scent...
Capisce...?
Think, here in Brazil everything is fine for now. We continued to fatten up like oxen on the green plateau. We will not send troops, weapons or ammunition to Nazi Ukraine. We'd rather die fighting Nazis, not alongside them.
Jan 29th, 2023 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse -2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xfe8669wsY&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=37
Sr. Brasileiro...
Jan 29th, 2023 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse -2- The German Chancellor..., Olaf Scholtz has just toured Latinoamerica thin to tell us how nice it would be if we..., Wetback Sudaca Brownies were to send some weapons to Europe..., so the one European Party could kill some more people of the other European Party in a War that was started by the Losing European Party some EIGHT years ago...
Happy to say that all of us..., politely..., refused that MADNESS...
https://www.pressenza.com/es/2023/01/alberto-fernandez-america-latina-no-tiene-intencion-de-enviar-armas-a-ucrania/
Saludos...
Trunks
Jan 29th, 2023 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse +3HMS Protector is a military ship. The photo is only a week old.
Your neighbours say many thinks in the cause of regional solidarity, but then do very little.
Talk is cheap.
Cheaper than the Argentine peso.
Me esteemed Engrish Ex-copper...
Jan 30th, 2023 - 12:23 am - Link - Report abuse -1You are quite right when you say that...:
A) The HMS Protector (A173) is ia military ship...
B) The Punta Arenas Twitter photo you so kindly linked us to..., is only a week old...
- BUT...
If I were you...
I would observe closely the picture you linked us to... :-)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnBqKE3XEAEpr-H?format=jpg&name=medium
Can you see the “A173” painted on that ship's side with 4.5 meters high letter and numbers...?
Nope..., you can't...
And you know why...?
Because she ain't no HMS Protector...!
That CIVILIAN beauty is the RRS Boaty McBoatface..., a.k.a. RRS Sir David Attenborough...:-)
-Don't they learn you at the Engrish Police Academy not to judge suspects ONLY by their colour...?
Good thing you retired early..., copper... ;-)
Capisce...?
I shall bow to your better eyesight, Trunks.
Jan 30th, 2023 - 01:21 am - Link - Report abuse +1But a British ship non the less, and a ROYAL Research Ship, to boot.
Civilian? Works for the British government and has visited the Falklands.
Still ..... as long as you are happy ;-)
How could I not be happy after receiving a bow from Hoyt... ;-)
Jan 30th, 2023 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse -1Commenting for this story is now closed.
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