Falkland Islands

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 02:33 UTC

  Falklands’ Defence Force marks 30th anniversary of Argentine invasion

  

  The Falkland Islands marked on Sunday the start of the South Atlantic conflict thirty years ago with a ceremony honouring local Defence Force members who were on duty the night of 01 April 1982 when the Argentine invasion.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 01:49 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez leads main Malvinas war commemoration in Ushuaia

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will lead on Monday the main ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Malvinas war or South Atlantic conflict, when Argentine troops invaded the Falklands and held them for 74 days until ousted by a British Task Force.

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:58 UTC

  Thirty years after the Falklands short, victorious war

  

  The Economist latest edition includes a piece on April 2nd 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. The ensuing war Britain fought to recover them still colors UK and Argentine domestic politics

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:28 UTC

  Rootyling for cash, the central bank has become Argentina’s Piggy bank

  

  The Economist argues that with the latest legislation, the Argentine central bank has lost its legal independence and become the piggy bank of President Cristina Fernandez government.

• Saturday, March 31st 2012 - 23:45 UTC

  Cristina Fernández picks a fight

  

  By Jimmy Burns - ‘La Presidenta’ relishes a battle – not least with the old enemy over the future of the Falklands. But is she losing her grip at home in Argentina?

• Saturday, March 31st 2012 - 07:23 UTC

  Argentine group questions ‘ambiguity’ of Malvinas April 2 commemoration

  

  The same group of Argentine intellectuals and free thinkers that last February presented the document “Malvinas, an alternative view” in which among other things they recognize Falkland Islanders right to self determination, released a second text in which they strongly question having chosen April 2 to commemorate the Day of the veterans and the fallen in the Malvinas war.

• Saturday, March 31st 2012 - 06:43 UTC

  “Falklands have a right to self determination and to be British”, no blockade is going to change that

  

  Argentina’s ever more aggressive rhetoric challenging the Falkland Islands sovereignty underlines the significance of the right to self determination, said Sukey Cameron the Falklands’ elected government representative in London.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 22:54 UTC

  Argentina reiterates ‘serious suspicions’ about UK nuclear weapons in Falklands’ region

  

  Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli reiterated Argentina’s “militarization” claims in the Falkland Islands and highlighted “serious suspicions” that Britain is using nuclear weapons in the South Atlantic region.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 07:54 UTC

  For Uruguay “there is not blockade of Malvinas by any country of the continent”

  

  Uruguay reiterated its full and traditional support for Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, but at the same time underlined that “there is no blockade to the inhabitants of the Malvinas Islands by any country of the continent”, and clearly differentiated the Cuban and Malvinas blockades.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 06:47 UTC

  Uruguay against any Falklands’ blockade; supports trade with the Islands

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro said that the Uruguayan government does not oppose trade with the Falkland Islands and any undertaking to that effect by the private sector is welcome since “Uruguay does not agree with any commercial or economic blockade of the Islands”.