Tag: Carlos Benjamin Menendez

• Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 07:30 UTC

  “We planted between 15.000 and 20.000 antipersonnel and antitank mines” in Malvinas

  

  In a rare interview, the Argentine Colonel who was responsible for placing mines in the occupied Falkland Islands in 1982 as part of the defense strategy against the advancing British forces, admits that between 15.000 and 20.000 of antipersonnel and anti tank explosives were planted, but also claims some stretches of the Islands' coast already had mines which had been placed by the British.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:57 UTC

  Furious Chile demands an apology from Argentina’s former military governor of the Falklands

  

  The Chilean political system reacted angrily and demanded official apologies from the Argentine government following statements from former General Mario Menendez who said “Chileans behaved as pigs during the Malvinas war” three decades ago.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:51 UTC

  “We were prepared for war with Chile”, not in Malvinas admits former Argentine military governor

  

  The former military governor of the Malvinas Islands during the Argentine occupation said that the negative outcome of the war for Argentina can only be attributed to “negligence and improvisation”.