Tag: South Georgia

Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 07:23 UTC
After the Falklands war, Brazil helped repatriate Argentine repressor jailed in the UK

The Brazilian dictatorship mediated before London in 1982 to have Navy Captain and notorious repressor Alfredo Astiz, repatriated to Argentina from Britain, where he had been flown after he surrendered the South Georgia garrison to the British Task Force.
Monday, October 17th 2011 - 14:27 UTC
Newcastle barrister takes Senior Magistrate job in Falklands Islands

A barrister is swapping his job in the North East for a top role in the Falkland Islands.
Carl Gumsley is swapping busy city life for beautiful landscapes and fascinating wildlife as he takes on the role of senor magistrate, reports Journal liveuk.co.
Wednesday, October 5th 2011 - 09:13 UTC
How the Argentine military to save a collapsing regime, planned the Malvinas invasion war

Juan B Yoffre, an Argentine journalist, businessman and politician (he was Intelligence chief for two years with former President Carlos Menem) has written a book “1982” on the Falklands/Malvinas conflict where he reveals how the idea of the military invasion was secretly elaborated and implemented.
Wednesday, October 5th 2011 - 08:12 UTC
Argentina highest court rejects French request to extradite “the blond angel of death”

The Argentine Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a French request to extradite former navy captain Alfredo Astiz, who was convicted in absentia in Europe for killing two French nuns during the 1976-1983 “Dirty War.”
Tuesday, October 4th 2011 - 06:53 UTC
UK relation with OTs (including Falklands) is based on ‘the choices of the peoples’

The United Kingdom relationship with the Overseas Territories “is based on the choices of the peoples” said Monday British representative Philip Parham before the UN Fourth Committee on Decolonization in response to several statements from Latin American delegates regarding the Falkland Islands and sovereignty discussions with Argentina.
Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 12:01 UTC
Falklands’ deployed HMS Edinburgh visits South African navy Simons Town base

The veteran HMS Edinburgh has completed the first half of her six-month Falkland Islands deployment in the South Atlantic and is now in South Africa for maintenance and the ship’s company for some rest and recovery.
Friday, August 26th 2011 - 04:13 UTC
Argentine Claims on the South Atlantic Remote Islands

Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands is well documented, but lesser known is her continued claim to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:33 UTC
HMS Edinburgh visits South Georgia to test land and sea forces

HMS Edinburgh visited this month South Georgia as part of her six-month South Atlantic and Falkland Islands duties which included training soldiers in a cold weather environment and give sailors the chance under such challenging conditions.
Monday, August 8th 2011 - 03:48 UTC
For Argentina Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty legitimacy conditions any other negotiation

Argentina is not going to make things easy for Britain in the Falkland Islands and the first discussion, before any other issues are addressed, must be the legitimacy of the Malvinas Islands sovereignty, said Argentine Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli in a Sunday interview by Carolina Barrios published in the Buenos Aires Herald.
Thursday, July 21st 2011 - 09:43 UTC
HMS Edinburgh arrives in the Falklands after visiting Cape Town

The Portsmouth-based destroyer HMS Edinburgh faced some mountainous seas on the 4,000-mile passage from Cape Town to Mare Harbour in the Falkland Islands, her base for the next five or so months as she patrols Britain’s South Atlantic territories.