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Montevideo, May 9th 2025 - 11:27 UTC

Tag: South Atlantic conflict

  • Friday, April 4th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Treason charges filed against Milei for April 2 speech

    Milei was said to have dropped Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands

    Argentina's National Confederation of Malvinas Combatants filed a criminal complaint against President Javier Milei for treason, violation of public official duties, and abuse of authority. The case is to be heard by Buenos Aires City Federal Court # 2 under Judge Sebastián Ramos.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2025 - 17:09 UTC

    Argentine VP calls for “re-Malvinization” process

    The cause of the Malvinas Islands unites Argentina, Villarruel argued

    Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel was the main speaker at a ceremony in Ushuaia marking the 43rd anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War. Her participation at an event separate from the one headed by President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires transpired internal differences within the once successful electoral ticket.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2025 - 16:46 UTC

    Milei wants Islanders to want to be Argentine

    Sovereignty is an Orwellian concept under which politicians have mascaraded their dirty business, Milei argued

    Argentine President Javier Milei insisted Wednesday during the main Malvinas War Veterans' Day ceremony that his government would work to turn his country into a serious one so that the people of the Falkland Islands would want to be a part of it.

  • Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 19:55 UTC

    April 2 Malvinas Day to further showcase rift in Argentine gov't

    Villarruel has a separate agenda from that of the President, Malvinas or otherwise

    The April 2 Malvinas War Veteran's Day holiday will showcase the rift in the Argentine Government much more than it would highlight any question of sovereignty and patriotism. While President Javier Milei will head the ceremony in the Buenos Aires district of Retiro, where a cenotaph remembers thhose fallen in the 1982 conflict, Vice President Victoria Villarruel -who was not invited- is to attend an event in Ushuaia to join a group of former combatants, which her late father also was.

  • Monday, June 10th 2024 - 19:00 UTC

    Argentine Foreign Ministry highlights June 10 Malvinas Sovereignty Day

    On June 10, 1829, Luis Vernet was appointed Governor of the Malvinas Islands in the name of the Province of Buenos Aires

    Argentina's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Monday on the 195th anniversary of the establishment of a garrison known as the Political and Military Command in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands in the name of the Province of Buenos Aires. The settlement remained there until it was displaced in 1833 by a stronger British force. The document reviewed Argentina's claims following that event.

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 16:09 UTC

    Argentine airplane from 1982 to be restored and shown at museum?

    The emblematic unit was traded in 2005 in exchange for spare parts for Sea King helicopters to be deployed in the Antarctic campaign

    The Italian-built Aermacchi MB-339 used by then-Argentine Navy Lt Owen Crippa on May 21, 1982, to attack the HMS Argonaut is about to be flown from the United States to be restored in the city of Sunchales and later displayed at a museum, it was reported last week.

  • Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 19:22 UTC

    Uruguayan Senate agrees on a consensus statement on the Malvinas war and ongoing conflict

    Guillermo Carmona and the Argentine ambassador in Uruguay, Alberto Iribarne were received with a consensus declaration from the Senate ratifying Uruguay's support for Argentina's claims in Malvinas

    Argentina's secretary for Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic affairs, Guillermo Carmona, this week visited Uruguay where he met with the Senate's International Affairs Committee, as part of the round of contacts with neighboring countries to discuss South Atlantic and Antarctica issues.

  • Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 09:30 UTC

    Falklands war was instrumental in accelerating the return of democracy in Argentina, Ambassador Figueroa

    Javier Figueroa at the ambassador’s office in Belgrave Square (Victoria Jones/PA)

    By Catherine Lough, PA - The memory of the Falklands War is an “open wound” for Argentina, the country’s ambassador to the UK has said. Speaking to Catherine Lough of Press Association news agency to mark the 40th anniversary of the conflict, Javier Figueroa said wrangling over the Islands’ sovereignty is “ridiculous”, but admits that the war was instrumental in accelerating the return of democracy to Argentina.

  • Monday, April 4th 2022 - 21:52 UTC

    Falklands newsman would like an apology for 1982

    “The Falklanders did not deserve to suffer as they did in 1982,” Bound stressed. Photo: Argentine prisoners of war by Graham Bound

    While Argentina's Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero wrote for The Guardian last week that his country posed a threat to no one, Graham Bound, founder of Port Stanley's Penguin News, told the Spanish newswire service EFE that the presence of British troops on the islands did serve a purpose.

  • Saturday, July 17th 2021 - 07:59 UTC

    Ushuaia names commission to prepare Malvinas war 40th anniversary

    Ushuaia, according to Argentine legislation, the capital of Malvinas

    Ushuaia officials and Malvinas war veterans have been meeting to start preparing the agenda of commemorations for the fortieth anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict next year.

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