Tag: Falklands/Malvinas conflict

• Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 19:55 UTC

  April 2 Malvinas Day to further showcase rift in Argentine gov't

  

  The April 2 Malvinas War Veteran's Day holiday will showcase the rift in the Argentine Government much more than it would highlight any question of sovereignty and patriotism. While President Javier Milei will head the ceremony in the Buenos Aires district of Retiro, where a cenotaph remembers thhose fallen in the 1982 conflict, Vice President Victoria Villarruel -who was not invited- is to attend an event in Ushuaia to join a group of former combatants, which her late father also was.

• Friday, October 4th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  Mondino hails UK-Mauritius understanding on Chagos

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino celebrated Thursday's announcement regarding the imminent handover of the British Indian Ocean Territory of Chagos to Mauritius after a dispute of nearly six decades and hinted that a similar path should be followed to ”recover the Malvinas (Falkland).”

• Saturday, March 23rd 2024 - 15:15 UTC

  Vice-president Villarruel, April 2nd Malvinas parade cancelled: too onerous

  

  Argentine Vice-president Victoria Villarruel announced there will be no military parade next April 2nd. to commemorate the beginning of the 42nd anniversary of “the Malvinas historic deed before Congress, since it would represent a too high cost” in Argentina's current circumstances.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:40 UTC

  Falklands peaty soil spread in the main ring of the Palermo cattle show in Buenos Aires

  

  The main Argentine agriculture and business show is annually held on the grounds of Palermo, since Saturday in its major ring where the best cattle, sheep, and horses of the event are paraded, has in the center peaty soil from the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 19:09 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government supporting works to determine possible presence of unidentified Argentine graves at Teal Inlet

  

  The Falkland Islands Government is to support efforts to establish whether there is unidentified Argentine military personnel buried at Teal Inlet, according to a statement released this afternoon.

• Saturday, May 2nd 2020 - 07:28 UTC

  Argentina recalls the 38th anniversary of the Air Force baptism of fire on May first 1982

  

  Defense minister Agustín Rossi called on Argentines to claim sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands with the same character displayed by the Argentine pilots during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict with the UK and underlined it's up to the new generations to make sure the Malvinas cause is not forgotten.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Image of Virgin of Lujan taken to Falklands during the war to be returned at ceremony blessed by the Pope

  

  An image of Argentina's saint patron, the Virgin of Lujan, which was carried to the Falklands during the 1982 conflict, and remained unaccounted for during years, will be returned by the United Kingdom. In retribution, the Argentine military bishop will hand a replica of the image to the head of British military chaplains in a ceremony to take place next month in the Vatican with Pope Francis blessing the images.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  ARA Belgrano relatives will travel next October to the spot where she went down torpedoed in May 1982

  

  Relatives of the sailors who lost their lives when the sinking of the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano, during the Falklands' conflict will be travelling to the area where she went down, sometime in mid-October.

• Sunday, June 23rd 2019 - 14:43 UTC

  Ashes of General Mario Menendez strategically scattered in Falkland Islands

  

  By Heather Briley, Buenos Aires - The ashes of the notorious Argentine general who oversaw the brutal occupation of the Falklands have been scattered in secret on the islands after being smuggled over in a Tupperware box, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

• Saturday, October 13th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  Falklands: forensic team identifies remains of the 101th Argentine combatant

  

  The Argentine government announced on Friday that the number of identified combatants fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands has risen to 101. That means 101 gravestones at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin now have a full name.