Politics

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 20:06 UTC

  Russian icebreaker ‘Vasily Golovnin’ supplying Argentine Antarctica bases

  

  The Russian icebreaker ‘Vasily Golovnin’ left Buenos Aires this week for Antarctica to deliver equipment, fuel, food and general cargo to Argentina’s Antarctic bases.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 19:56 UTC

  Argentina is welcome to take Falklands ‘militarization’ to UN, but also principle of self determination

  

  There was considerable anticipation and speculation in the Falkland Islands on Tuesday as residents and visitors alike waited to hear Argentine president Cristina Kirchner’s much-publicized evening announcement.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 19:46 UTC

  French photographer stabbed to death when taking pictures of Buenos Aires Malvinas Memorial

  

  A French photographer was stabbed to death Wednesday morning in Buenos Aires Plaza San Martin, after thieves tried to steal his camera while he was taking pictures of the monument honouring the Argentine Malvinas War memorial.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 06:13 UTC

  Half a century embargo and nine US president later Fidel Castro is still around

  

  The 50th anniversary of the US trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday was met with little fanfare on the island, where Cubans said it was a failed policy that had succeeded only in making their lives more difficult.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 06:06 UTC

  “Unlikely” Peru would back Argentina in a new Malvinas conflict

  

  Peru’s former Foreign Affairs minister, Jose Antonio Garcia-Belaunde, says it is unlikely that Peru would back Argentina if there were a new conflict with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, newspaper El Comercio reported.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 04:21 UTC

  Lawmaker says Chile should keep distance from the Malvinas issue

  

  Lawmaker Ivan Moreira from the ruling coalition junior partner UDI said that Chile should not get involved in the Falklands/Malvinas issue which has to be addressed between Argentina and the UK, and recalled that Chile has its own problem with the coming International Court of Justice dispute with neighbouring Peru.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 01:19 UTC

  Argentina will accuse UK of South Atlantic and Malvinas militarization before UN

  

  In a much expected speech President Cristina Fernandez announced a further escalation of the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty diplomatic dispute with the UK including formal ‘militarization’ complaints before the United Nations, a personal attendance with a delegation from all parties next June 14 to the UN decolonization committee and called on PM David Cameron to “give peace a chance”

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 01:11 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmakers lobby Caribbean nations in support of self-determination

  

  Members of the Falklands Islands Legislative Assembly, Sharon Halford and Roger Edwards, have visited Grenada in the Caribbean to discuss the Falkland Islands right to self-determination with government ministers and senior officials.

• Tuesday, February 7th 2012 - 16:51 UTC

  Only the Falklands can determine its political future “not London, not Buenos Aires”

  

  “We are well aware that Chile has a different position to us regarding the Falklands and this we understand, but it must be the Islanders who determine their political future, not London, not Buenos Aires or third countries”, said UK ambassador in Chile Jon Benjamin in an interview with the Chilean media.

• Tuesday, February 7th 2012 - 12:57 UTC

  “There is a point where Islanders will say to the Argentines, 'To hell with you.'”

  

  The following piece was published by The Independent, an interview of the Falkland Islands Governor Nigel Haywood by Falklands-born writer, journalist and expert in Latin American and defense affairs, Graham Bound.