Politics

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 20:47 UTC

  “The Falklands belong to the Islanders” and are the key to the question

  

  “The Falkland Islands belong to you, the Islanders”, said one of Argentina’s top political analysts and journalists Mariano Grondona. Although the quote, from the Penguin News, dates back to October 1998 when he was invited to the Islands by the Falklands Legislative Council, Mr. Grondona has not betrayed the statement and reiterated his opinion.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 05:15 UTC

  The Peruvian Exocet connection in the Falklands/Malvinas war

  

  It was 1982 and Peru had returned to the path of democracy. Belaunde Terry was elected president, the same man the military ousted in 1968, and he was no friend of military or right wing dictatorships.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 03:44 UTC

  FARC free ten military hostages held in jungle prisons for more than a decade

  

  Colombia's FARC rebels on Monday freed 10 members of the armed forces held hostage in jungle prison camps for more than a decade, the last of a group of captives the drug-funded group has held as bargaining chips to pressure the government.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 03:33 UTC

  Americas Summit expected to release support-statement for Argentina’s Falklands claim

  

  Thirty years after the Falklands/Malvinas war, Latin America seems to be closing ranks behind Argentina's sovereignty claim over the disputed islands and reviving a bid for control in the resource-rich South Atlantic.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 00:47 UTC

  Argentine invasion of the Falklands, ‘a profound wrong’ says PM Cameron

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday April 2 called Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands three decades ago a “profound wrong” aimed at depriving the Islanders of their freedom.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 23:47 UTC

  UK lights Falklands’ flame at Arboretum chapel on war anniversary remembrance

  

  UK launched on Monday at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire a series of low key commemorative events to be held over the next 11 weeks, to remember 30 years of the day the Falkland Islands were invaded.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 22:46 UTC

  Unasur delivers statement supporting Argentina’s Falklands claim to Ban-ki-moon

  

  Unasur Secretary General Maria Emma Mejia met on Monday with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and delivered a statement from the twelve countries of the region in support of Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Rioters attack UK embassy in Buenos Aires with stones, sticks and gasoline bombs

  

  Argentine radical groups fought several hours with riot police in Buenos Aires protecting the British embassy on the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands/Malvinas war between Argentina and the UK.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 22:20 UTC

  Argentina appeals to Red Cross to help identify remains of soldiers buried in Falklands

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has sent a letter to the Red Cross asking the international organization to intercede before the UK so that the remains of Argentine and British soldiers in the Falkland Islands which are still unknown, 30 years after the beginning of the Malvinas war can be identified.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:52 UTC

  Former RN officer tells how the sinking of the Belgrano was coordinated

  

  On the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict, the member of the Royal Navy who was responsible for coordinating the attack on the Argentina Navy cruiser “General Belgrano” spoke to UK-based newspaper “The News,” in Portsmouth and explained the steps that led up to the attack that caused 323 deaths and why it was justified at the time.