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Montevideo, April 17th 2025 - 14:46 UTC

Falkland Islands

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 02:06 UTC

    Despite invitation Argentine ambassador will not attend Lady Thatcher’s funeral

    The Foreign Office excluded Cristina Fernandez from the guests’ list but included Ambassador Alicia Castro

    Argentine ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro has declined the official invitation to attend Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, Downing Street reported. Lady Thatcher was Britain’s PM when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and she sent a task force to successfully recover them in June 1982 after a 74-day armed conflict.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 05:39 UTC

    A view from the Falklands on Margaret Thatcher's legacy

    Falklands for ever grateful for liberation and her support after the war, said MLA Summers

    By Mike Summers (*)

    The reports on the reaction in the United Kingdom to the death of Baroness Thatcher have shown a clear contrast between those who approved of her policies and those that did not. This is understandable and is no doubt true of any prime minister. However, here in the Falkland Islands there is very little difference of opinion. Margaret Thatcher is held in high regard and with deep affection by Islanders, for she is someone to whom we owe much.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 01:37 UTC

    Falkland Islands’ history and referendum message impact in Honduras and Guatemala

    MLA Elsby during his visit to a newspaper in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

    The way the Falkland Islands have developed into a self governing and self financing country and the recent referendum with its strong message, attracted genuine attention of another two countries visited by a Falklands’ delegation.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 01:32 UTC

    Falkland Islands’ delegation received in Latam with open doors and genuine interest

    UK ambassador in Ecuador Patrick Mullee, MLA Short and journalist Stacy Bragger in Quito

    Latinamerican members of government, opinion formers and academics have been genuinely interested in hearing the Falkland Islanders’ point of view and the recent referendum results, revealed Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Gavin Short.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 00:34 UTC

    The Iron Lady and I!

    Harold Briley (R) interviewing Margaret Thatcher in London as a Falklands’ anniversary reunion with David Tatham, a former governor of the Islands

    Mercopress correspondent Harold Briley knew Margaret Thatcher well, here reminiscing on fifty years of reporting her activities for half a century as a BBC Political, Latin America. Defence and East Europe Correspondent.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 18:03 UTC

    Details of Lady Thatcher’s funeral; Cristina Fernandez not in the invite list

    Over 2.000 invitations will be sent out for the funeral service at St Paul’s

    Britain has decided not to invite Argentine President Cristina Kirchner to the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Downing Street said on Thursday. The decision follows on a special request from the Thatcher family.However Ambassdor Alicia Castro will be invited since according to diplomatic protocol Britain has normal relations with the UK, and it is a state to state issue.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 15:26 UTC

    Crucially different from Hong Kong

    By Steve Tsang (*) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher fought a war with Argentina to defend the Falklands, but she negotiated with China over the future of Hong Kong. Should the apparent success of British diplomacy in securing an acceptable future of Hong Kong be a shining example for a similar solution for the Falklands?

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 15:17 UTC

    Gibraltar represents a road map

    By Jose C. Moya (*) - The recent referendum’s near unanimous support for British rule seems to leave little space for negotiations. The passing of Thatcher -- who was seen as a liberator by most Islanders -- will, if anything, harden their position by reviving memories of the war. And the position of the Argentine population is equally hard, if the recent revival and political use of the issue by the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is any indication.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:37 UTC

    Cooperate and move on

    Falklanders celebrating the March 10/11 referendum

    By Fabian Bosoer and Federico Finchelstein (*) - In Argentina, the passing of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brings memories of a seemingly irresoluble conflict. The conflict stands as a metaphor of a larger history of global misunderstandings.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:31 UTC

    Confidence behind the Falklands

    (*) Klaus Dodds is a professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and the editor of The Geographical Journal.

    By Klaus Dodds (*) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s death does not represent an opportunity to resolve the long-standing sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands, or Islas Malvinas. If anything it is a reminder of how entrenched her legacy is to this particular aspect of British foreign and security policy.