Tag: Malvinas veteran

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  Malvinas Veteran in tears after his Argentine military ID was sold on the UK eBay website

  

  By Heather Briley for MercoPress
  
  LONDON, UK – Almost forty years after the Falklands conflict the identity document of an Argentine soldier has been sold on the UK eBay website. It belongs to the director of the Malvinas Museum in Buenos Aires, Edgardo Esteban, 58. He expressed his dismay at the sale and was moved to tears that it had surfaced after all this time.

• Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Buenos Aires ceremony to recall Malvinas rights Affirmation Day

  

  Argentina commemorated on Monday in downtown Buenos Aires the Day of the Affirmation of Argentine rights over the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands in a ceremony to honor the former combatants of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict.

• Friday, May 26th 2017 - 10:20 UTC

  Argentina honors Spanish fisherman who spied on the Task Force during the Falklands war

  

  The Argentine embassy in Madrid honored a Spanish fisherman from Galicia, Fernando Otero, as a Malvinas Veteran for services accomplished during the 1982 Falklands war, spying on the British Task Force as she approached the South Atlantic. The event took place on Argentina's National Day, May 25th.

• Friday, May 19th 2017 - 12:09 UTC

  Malvinas Veterans expose Argentine Judiciary “delay” in addressing human rights abuses during the war

  

  Malvinas Veterans organizations met with members of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR, currently in Buenos Aires and complained about the “delay” of Argentine courts in addressing dozens of cases involving human rights abuses committed by Argentine officers against conscripts during the 1982 Falklands conflict.

• Monday, June 9th 2014 - 06:38 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez opens inter-active Malvinas museum on Tuesday

  

  Argentina's claim campaign over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands will have another milestone this week when President Cristina Fernandez opens the Malvinas Museum, which is located on the grounds of the former Navy's Mechanics School, famous for being a torture and disappearance center during the last Argentine military dictatorship and now a Space for Memory.

• Friday, March 28th 2014 - 08:39 UTC

  In memory of Malvinas, a passage is officially named “April 2” instead of 'Inglaterra'

  

  Buenos Aires City councilors gave final approval to a bill that officially names “April 2”, a passage in the neighborhood of Agronomia, which was re-baptized with that name by residents during the 1982 Malvinas war conflict, who erased the original name of 'England'.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 00:42 UTC

  Malvinas veteran named coach of one of Argentina’s five most popular soccer teams

  

  Malvinas veteran Omar de Felippe who was part of the defence ring organized by the invading Argentine military to defend occupied Port Stanley in 1982, has been named coach of Independiente, the ‘red devils’ one of the five most popular soccer teams in Argentina, which after a streak of losing games was condemned to a lower league.