Tag: Antonio Rivero

• Monday, June 9th 2014 - 06:38 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez opens inter-active Malvinas museum on Tuesday

  

  Argentina's claim campaign over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands will have another milestone this week when President Cristina Fernandez opens the Malvinas Museum, which is located on the grounds of the former Navy's Mechanics School, famous for being a torture and disappearance center during the last Argentine military dictatorship and now a Space for Memory.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 07:02 UTC

  Venezuela releases ex-general jailed on charges of inciting unrest

  

  Venezuelan authorities have released a dissent ex-general who was jailed on charges of inciting unrest after the country’s disputed presidential election. Retired General Antonio Rivero, who is also a member of the opposition movement Popular Will, said he would “take care of my health” as he was freed late Friday.

• Friday, February 15th 2013 - 19:35 UTC

  February 1833: Parallel truths in parallel universes: can that be the only explanation?

  

  By John Fowler - According to the Argentine view of things, the Falkland Islands are Las Islas Malvinas and the capital city is not Stanley, which was founded in 1844, but Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, which did not really begin to be a town till 1881 with the establishment of a penal colony there.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 18:42 UTC

  Brief history of the Falklands since first references in the 16th century to 1841

  

  The Falkland Islands, lying about 560km off the mainland of South America, comprise two large islands, East and West Falkland, and a swarm of other islands ranging from substantial ones off the western edge of West Falkland to smaller islets and reefs scattered all along the coasts.

• Saturday, August 14th 2010 - 08:21 UTC

  General who exposed Cuban influence in Venezuelan army faces trial

  

  A former Venezuelan army general accused of revealing military secrets after he criticized the “Cubanization” of Venezuela's armed forces was told by a judge Friday not to leave the country while the case is being investigated.