Tag: Falklands/Malvinas veteran

• Sunday, April 2nd 2023 - 11:56 UTC

  Argentines hold nationwide Veterans Day celebrations to honor the fallen

  

  Multiple events are to be held across Argentina Sunday marking Veterans Day 41 years after the military Junta's troops landed in Stanley (then renamed Puerto Argentino) thus kicking off the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas War with the United Kingdom.

• Monday, February 5th 2018 - 05:02 UTC

  Argentine officials and Malvinas relatives preparing trip to the Falklands

  

  Argentine officials and representatives from the Relatives of the Malvinas fallen committee met last Friday to consider details of the trip to the Falklands, which is being organized for the next of kin of the 88 recently identified Argentine combatants remains buried at the Darwin cemetery.

• Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 22:41 UTC

  Controversy in Argentina over Malvinas invasion date: Macri will not attend any of the April 2 anniversary events

  

  Malvinas veterans expressed great displeasure with the official announcement that Argentine president Mauricio Macri will not be attending any of the programmed events in different cities and provinces on the 34th anniversary of the Argentine April 2 invasion of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, according to Buenos Aires media.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2015 - 03:58 UTC

  Malvinas Argentine veterans demand justice of abuse suffered at the hands of their officers

  

  Argentine Veterans from the 1982 Malvinas war will continue to voice their condemnation of abuse suffered at the hands of their superior officers as a legal team reiterate their demands for recognition and justice before federal courts in Río Grande on Monday.

• Wednesday, July 8th 2015 - 07:02 UTC

  Malvinas conflict former soldiers' claim to pension denied by Supreme Court for lack of combat evidence

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court in what is considered a lead case on Tuesday ruled contrary to Malvinas war pensions for the former soldiers who served with the Eighth Mechanized Infantry regiment, based in Comodoro Rivadavia during the 1982 conflict, because they were never involved in combat or participated in the Military Operations Theatre.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 18:21 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez confirms top commanders but purges 36 military brass

  

  Hours before undergoing surgery Argentine President Cristina Fernandez purged 36 members of the military brass in the wake of the recent dismissal of the Navy commander amid a domestic-spying scandal.