Tag: Malvinas Veterans and Relatives

• Wednesday, July 21st 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas architecture and urban planning exhibition in Ushuaia

  

  The Town Hall of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, extreme south of Argentina, together with the local branch of Malvinas war Veterans opened this week an exhibition under the title of “Architecture and Planning in Malvinas, 1764/1833” dedicated to the people that lived in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands during that period of time.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 06:52 UTC

  Malvinas Veterans Office created by the Macri administration

  

  Argentina has created a Coordination Office for Malvinas War Veterans, the first such office since the end of the 1982 conflict, when Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands and were defeated 74 days later.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Roger Waters meets Malvinas mothers at concert; Buenos Aires City will declare him Guest of Honor

  

  Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters is currently on a tour of South America and this week was in Argentina for a first concert in La Plata, and on Thursday the City of Buenos Aires Legislative Council is scheduled to award him a Guest of Honor diploma.

• Tuesday, October 27th 2015 - 06:36 UTC

  Falklands' “full agreement and involvement”, for any Argentine cemetery remains identification

  

  “If any identification is to take place of combatants buried in the Falkland Islands, it would have to be done with the full agreement and involvement of the Falkland Islands Government”, said the local government in a Monday release from Stanley.

• Saturday, October 24th 2015 - 06:50 UTC

  Malvinas veterans deliver letter at UK embassy requesting to identify remains buried in the Falklands

  

  Argentina Malvinas War veterans marched on Friday in Buenos Aires and protested before the UK embassy demanding London collaborates with the identification of the remains of Argentine soldiers buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2015 - 06:30 UTC

  Malvinas veterans to march before UK embassy to demand DNA tests of remains at Darwin cemetery

  

  Malvinas war veterans will march next Friday in downtown Buenos Aires up to the British Embassy to demand that DNA tests of the remains in 123 unidentified graves at the Argentine memorial cemetery in the Falkland Islands be allowed to commence.

• Thursday, March 20th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  Pope Francis meets Malvinas war veterans and next of kin

  

  Pope Francis met on Wednesday with a group of Malvinas veterans and next of kin of fallen in the Malvinas war, two weeks before the 32nd anniversary of the Argentine military invasion of the conflict.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2013 - 02:18 UTC

  Malvinas invasion recalled by President Cristina Fernandez in Puerto Madryn

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will lead on Tuesday the commemorations of the 31st anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas war in the Patagonian city of Puerto Madryn.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 19:44 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner will head April 2 Malvinas Veterans Day in Rio Gallegos

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will head the main commemoration of Malvinas Veteran and Malvinas Fallen Day next Saturday in Rio Gallegos, Patagonia which will be attended by former combatants and next of kin from those who lost their loved ones during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict.