Tag: Falklands War

• Thursday, May 21st 2026 - 23:36 UTC

  Reader's letter: a Head of the Bay farmer recalls the 1982 British landing

  

  MercoPress this week received a letter from reader Michael (“Ted”) Jones, a farmer at Head of the Bay —a settlement located in the immediate vicinity of the site where British forces landed on 21 May 1982—, in response to the Landing Day ceremonies led on Thursday by the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly. Both Jones and his wife Shelia were at Green Beach Port San Carlos during the war between the United Kingdom and Argentina over sovereignty of the archipelago. We publish his message below.

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• Thursday, May 21st 2026 - 20:07 UTC

  Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly pays tribute to 1982 British landing

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly on Thursday issued an official statement commemorating Landing Day, the date that recalls the arrival of British forces at San Carlos Bay on 21 May 1982, during the war between the United Kingdom and Argentina over sovereignty of the archipelago. The institutional declaration pays tribute to “the courage and sacrifice of those who came to restore our freedom and right to self-determination” and emphasizes that “the service of all who supported the liberation of our Islands will never be forgotten.”

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• Tuesday, May 19th 2026 - 12:17 UTC

  Falklands marks in May the landing of British forces and the liberation of Goose Green

  

  May is a month of commemoration for the population of the Falkland Islands, as the 44th anniversary of the Argentine armed invasion falls this month — an occupation that was defeated and expelled following the landing of the Task Force dispatched by London.

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• Monday, May 18th 2026 - 05:37 UTC

  The Falklands turn into a small South Atlantic economic power as the ghosts of 1982 return

  

  The Falkland Islands are going through their traditional “commemoration season,” the cycle of ceremonies that recall the 1982 war each year, culminating in Liberation Day on 14 June, at a moment defined by two overlapping realities: the consolidation of the archipelago as a small economic power in the South Atlantic and the reactivation of diplomatic tensions with the United States and Argentina. A feature published on Saturday by the British newspaper The Sunday Times, written by Matthew Campbell from Fitzroy, captures the contrast between growing economic prosperity and the anxiety generated by the recent leak of a Pentagon memorandum.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2026 - 04:10 UTC

  Argentine VP tells islanders to 'go back to England' as US presses UK over F-16 jets

  

  The Falklands sovereignty dispute returned to the centre of the diplomatic agenda this week with two developments of immediate impact: comments by Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel demanding that islanders “go back to England” if they “feel English” — despite the fact that in the 2013 referendum islanders voted by a 99.8% majority to remain British — and a disclosure published by The Telegraph that the United States had pressured the British government to tolerate the delivery to Argentina of F-16 fighter jets sourced from allied territory.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2026 - 10:50 UTC

  Milei presides over Falklands fallen tribute amid thaw in relations with London

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei is leading Thursday's central ceremony marking Veterans Day and the Day of the Fallen in the Falklands War, at Plaza San Martín in Buenos Aires's Retiro neighborhood, where the cenotaph honoring soldiers killed in the 1982 conflict stands. The ceremony, scheduled for 10 a.m., includes a presidential address, a wreath-laying, and a minute of silence before the unknown soldier plaque.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2026 - 18:16 UTC

  Falklands representative honors 1982 war veterans at UK reunion

  

  The Falkland Islands Government Representative to the UK and Europe, Richard Hyslop, attended the South Atlantic Medal Association (SAMA 82) Annual General Meeting and Reunion Weekend in Gloucester, England, on March 28–29.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2026 - 23:45 UTC

  Thousands march in Buenos Aires on 50th anniversary of military coup under “Never Again” banner

  

  Tens of thousands marched in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup that installed Argentina's last military dictatorship, in a day shaped by the dispute between the human rights movement and President Javier Milei's government over how that period is narrated.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2026 - 10:14 UTC

  Argentina marches on 50th anniversary of coup that led to the Falklands War and the regime's fall

  

  Thousands of people are expected to gather this Tuesday in Plaza de Mayo and in Argentina’s major cities to mark the 50th anniversary of the March 24, 1976, military coup that installed a dictatorship responsible for thousands of forced disappearances and which, in its final stage, launched the Falklands War in a desperate bid to cling to power.

• Thursday, February 19th 2026 - 23:43 UTC

  The rise and fall of Prince Andrew: Falklands war veteran, trade envoy and scandals

  

  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor —until recently known publicly as Prince Andrew— was detained on Thursday in Norfolk and later released “under investigation” in a probe into suspected misconduct in public office linked to his association with Jeffrey Epstein, police said. King Charles III said in a statement that “the law must take its course” and that a “full, fair and proper process” should follow.