Tag: Falklands War

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Malvinas “Virgin of Lujan” image finally arrives to Buenos Aires

  

  An image of Argentina Patroness, the Virgin of Lujan which was left behind by the Argentine soldiers at the end of the Falklands/Malvinas war, and was recently returned by the United Kingdom and blessed by Pope Francis in the Vatican, finally arrived in Buenos Aires early morning Monday, 37 years after the conflict was over.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Falklands' conflict reconciliation: Pope blesses exchange of Virgin of Lujan images

  

  In a conciliatory gesture 37 years after the Falklands War, military bishops from Great Britain and Argentina exchanged images of the Virgin Mary on Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square, blessed by Pope Francis.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine officers accused of 'burying' and 'staking' conscripts during the Falklands conflict face trial

  

  An Argentine federal judge from the city of Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego will be questioning four officers who allegedly during the 1982 Falklands' conflict ordered the “burial” and “staking” of a group of conscripts for having slaughtered a sheep, since they were desperately hungry and suffering from cold weather conditions.

• 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, September 12th 2019 - 22:37 UTC

  US unearths cold war inter-American defense treaty to warn Venezuela's military and political threats

  

  The government of Venezuela has denounced the US invocation of a Cold War-era mutual defense treaty on behalf of the opposition in Caracas, a move which clears the way for military intervention in the Latin American country.

• Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentines are “very easy” to relate to, says Ambassador Kent in BA

  

  Britain's ambassador to Buenos Aires Mark Kent Wednesday said in a live TV interview that Argentines are “very easy” to relate to and highlighted their sense of humour, which he found very similar to that of the people back in his home land.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Johnson/Macri, a ten-year friendship since they were mayors of London and Buenos Aires

  

  The Argentine media is pointing out that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Argentine president Mauricio Macri first met when they were mayors of London and Buenos Aires, --and full of ambitions--, and have since had a cordial standing personal relation. The first meeting took place at the Davos summit, Switzerland, in January 2009, and according to witnesses the chemistry was immediate.

• Wednesday, July 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine air force planning to purchase some ten South Korea's FA-50 fighter

  

  The Argentine air force has selected South Korea’s FA-50 as its next fighter, Jane's reported this week. The decision is good news for a once-proud air arm that, in recent years, has precipitously declined in size and effectiveness. Argentine officials as early as 2016 had asked to evaluate the twin-seat, supersonic FA-50, Jane's reported.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2019 - 22:52 UTC

  Humanitarian project identifies Argentine soldier #114 at Darwin

  

  A new body has been identified, raising the number of Argentine combatants fallen during the 1982 Falklands War who now have a name on their graves to 114, thanks to the Humanitarian Project underway.

• Sunday, July 14th 2019 - 15:04 UTC

  Argentina condemns British MEP's likening foreign fishing to Belgrano sinking

  

  Argentina harshly condemned the “lamentable declarations of British MEP Robert Rowland” in which he threatened foreign fishing in the Falklands area with “the same treatment as the Belgrano,” in reference to the Argentine cruise sunk by the United Kingdom during the 1982 war.