Argentina

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  The status of 'city' granted to Stanley by the Queen, another Argentine complaint in the next C24, June 23

  

  Next June 23 Argentina will renew its request before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, for the United Kingdom to resume negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute, which have been suspended for forty years following the South Atlantic conflict.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 23:45 UTC

  Timeline: 14th June 1982 – Democracy restored to the Falkland Islands

  

  On 02nd April 1982 Argentine Forces invaded the Falkland Islands. Patrick Watts, who was Head of Falklands Radio, broadcast a marathon 11 hours non-stop description of the events as they unfolded. He maintained a British presence in the Radio Station for most of the 74 days of Argentine occupation. In this article, he provides a personal account of his recollections of the day that British Forces liberated the Falklands.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Mounts surrounding Stanley taken by British forces, end of Falklands war

  

  The Argentine occupation of the Falkland Islands is coming to an end and Liberation is in the air. Royal Marines, Paras, Scot Guards, and Gurkhas with naval bombardment support were attacking and capturing the Mounts surrounding Stanley, which would inevitably lead to the collapse and surrender of Argentine forces on 14 June.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Venezuelan cargo 747 with Iranian crew causes uproar at Buenos Aires airport

  

  A Venezuelan-registered Boeing 747 red-flagged by the United States has been seized at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport, after which Argentine authorities kept the passports of the seventeen crewmembers.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Operation Blackleg to recover sensitive information from HMS Coventry sunk by Argentine bombers

  

  The Daily Express going through the National Archives of the British Ministry of Defense unearthed details of a secret operation in the aftermath of the Falkland Islands War to recover what were considered sensitive information and weapons, fearing they might fall into the hands of curious Soviets roaming the area.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentines not too keen on taking Covid-19 booster shots

  

  Argentine health authorities have reported that. although the COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet, fewer people showed up for their boosted dose of vaccine, due to a false low-risk perception which makes coverage not sufficient.

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:44 UTC

  Milei launches presidential bid in fiasco event attended by only a few

  

  Argentine Congressman Javier Milei, who had been slated as a strong presidential contender in next year's elections, Friday staged a major fiasco when in a football stadium with a capacity of 14,000 people, only some 1,500 gathered to see him launch his Casa Rosada bid.

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:37 UTC

  Locking in Stanley by land, sea and air, was stalemate for Argentine occupation and Falklands Liberation

  

  British Armed Forces fought their way towards the capital of the Falkland Islands, Stanley, in a series of battles on the evening of 11 June 1982. The objective were the mounts Two Sisters and Harriet, securing the high ground next to Stanley facilitating the definitive surrender of the Argentine occupying force and Liberation of the Falklands

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 23:25 UTC

  Sharp increase reported in Argentine intra-Mercosur exports

  

  Argentina has recorded a sharp increase in intra-Mercosur exports, with trade reaching its highest figures in 7 years, it was reported in Buenos Aires. Intra-Mercosur trade during 2021 reached US$ 41 billion and achieved the highest value since 2014, while Argentine exports to the bloc exceeded US$ 14 billion, according to the CXXIII Meeting of the Common Market Group (GMC) in Asunción.

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 21:23 UTC

  Maduro thanks Fernández for his speech in Los Angeles

  

  Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro Friday thanked Argentine President Alberto Fernández for his message at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, a gathering from which Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have been excluded by the hosting country.