Tag: Argentine soldiers

• Friday, May 30th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentine gov't announces “new” voluntary military service

  

  Argentina's Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei announced Thursday the creation of a Voluntary Military Service program for people aged 18–28, managed by the Ministries of Defense and Human Capital. The program aims to instill values like discipline, effort, and patriotism while offering training in trades such as cooking, mechanics, and security, alongside opportunities to complete compulsory education. It seeks to enhance personal and professional development and strengthen defense capabilities.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Red Cross presents final report after six Argentine soldiers are identified

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross presented on Monday, in Geneva, its final report on forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:02 UTC

  Falklands Police finds no evidence of human remains at Teal Inlet; Red Cross satisfied with excavation results

  

  The Royal Falkland Islands Police (RFIP) has continued to investigate reports of a burial site at Teal Inlet, alleged to contain the remains of unidentified Argentine soldiers.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 10:15 UTC

  Search at Falklands' Teal Inlet for more possible Argentine soldiers interments

  

  Falkland Islands' Chief Police Officer Superintendent Jeff McMahon is heading an inquiry to find the remains of Argentine soldiers who are still unaccounted for and maybe in unmarked interments in the north of East Falkland at a place called Teal Inlet.

• Thursday, March 18th 2021 - 20:28 UTC

  UK, Argentina and the Falklands signed an agreement for the second phase to identify soldiers fallen in 1982

  

  The governments of the United Kingdom, the Falkland Islands and Argentina agreed on Thursday to carry out a new stage of the Humanitarian Project Plan that began in 2017 and has allowed the identification of 115 Argentine soldiers fallen during the 1982 armed conflict. The agreement was signed at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, Switzerland and the Plan will be resumed in August, as confirmed by the British Embassy in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, March 18th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Falklands: begins second phase to identify Argentine soldiers remains

  

  The accord for the second phase of the humanitarian initiative to identify the remains of Argentine combatants buried at the Argentine military cemetery in the Falkland Islands is scheduled to be signed this Thursday in Geneva, while work could be starting by next August.

• Saturday, August 29th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine “militant” journalist apologizes to Malvinas war rank and file veterans

  

  A well-known face in Buenos Aires television, and member of the so-called new school of “militant” journalism, very close to the Kirchner governments, had to backtrack and publicly apologize to the combatants who fought in the South Atlantic conflict after calling them a bunch of cowards, who did not defend the motherland and ignominiously surrendered to the British.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 10:29 UTC

  Falklands' government announces visit of Argentine next of kin on 13 March

  

  The Falkland Islands elected government announced on Monday the visit of Argentine next of kin scheduled for 13 March. The release states that following the identification of a further 18 unknown Argentine soldiers, buried at the Argentine military Cemetery at Darwin, a private charter is due to arrive at Mount Pleasant Airport on Wednesday 13 March.

• Saturday, November 17th 2018 - 12:54 UTC

  Number of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands and fully indentified now totals 103

  

  Argentina has announced the identification of combatant 103 whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands and after 36 years will have a gravestone with his full name, at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin, Victor Rodriguez.

• Monday, February 15th 2016 - 06:55 UTC

  Four Argentines plan to swim the Falklands' Sound on an “identity cause”

  

  Four Argentine amateur swimmers have been training for over a year preparing for the crossing of the Falklands' Sound which separates the two main islands, West from East Falkland. The purpose of the crossing is to bring attention on the 'delayed' process of identifying the remains of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands under a headstone that reads “Argentine soldier, known only to God”.