Tag: Malvinas Day 2 April

• 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, April 3rd 2023 - 11:01 UTC

  President calls Argentines to hold war veterans where they belong

  

  President Alberto Fernández called Argentines to “feel proud” and “put the ex-combatants in their rightful place” during the celebration of the 41st anniversary of the landing in Stanley (then renamed Puerto Argentino) by the South American country's troops which kicked off the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas war.

• Sunday, April 2nd 2023 - 19:44 UTC

  Malvinas Veterans, Fallen and Families Day

  

  April 2nd is a special date in the calendar of Argentine events, the country renders homage to the Malvinas Veterans, Fallen, and Families of mostly thousands of raw Conscripts sent by the military Junta 41 years ago, in 1982 to invade and occupy the Falkland Islands. Argentina has been claiming sovereignty over the Falklands, alleging inheritance from once the Spanish empire, and later Argentine governments extended their demand to include “South Atlantic Islands and surrounding maritime spaces”.

• 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, September 11th 2017 - 09:47 UTC

  Malvinas Day will be remembered every 2 April in Puerto Argentino (Stanley), when sovereignty is recovered

  

  The Argentine Senate has approved a bill establishing the Day of the Malvinas War Veteran and Fallen, which will be remembered every April 2nd in the Tierra del Fuego city of Puerto Argentino (Stanley, Falkland Islands), once sovereignty over the Islands is recovered. Until then the event will take place in the city of Ushuaia, capital of the Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands province.