Tag: Tierra del Fuego

• Wednesday, April 9th 2014 - 07:03 UTC

  Algeciras mayor highlights 'English occupation' of Gibraltar and the Falklands

  

  The mayor of the Spanish town of Algeciras, Jose Ignacio Landaluce flew back this weekend from Argentina, where he had attended a twinning ceremony with Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego that sought to highlight the ‘English occupation’ of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 17:40 UTC

  Falklands cruise season: Ushuaia warns “Gaucho Rivero” bill will be fully enforced

  

  The “Gaucho Rivero” bill which bans the access of British flagged (red ensign) or convenience flagged vessels which call in the Falkland Islands remains fully in force for Ushuaia, said Marcelo Echazú, head of the Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute, Infuetur, on announcing this year’s cruise season.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:54 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Argentina recalls its major UN diplomatic success in 1964/65

  

  Tierra del Fuego media recalled that on 17 September 1964 a United Nations sub-committee unanimously recommended that the “Malvinas case” be included among issues referred to Decolonisation and thus admits ‘the existence of sovereignty dispute over the Falklands and other South Atlantic islands’.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2013 - 20:04 UTC

  Successful fracking for tight gas in Tierra del Fuego, announces Chile’s ENAP

  

  Chile’s government oil and gas company, ENAP, confirmed a successful experiment with hydraulic fracturing to extract non conventional tight gas at the Arenal Block in Tierra del Fuego, where the company operates with no partners.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 00:54 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ war anniversary: Argentina pledges to ‘unremittingly’ insist on dialogue with UK

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez marked Tuesday's 31st anniversary of the start of the Falklands War by again demanding that Britain agree to discuss sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands.

• 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.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2013 - 05:12 UTC

  The 2012/13 cruise season: a new case of Argentine intolerance towards Malvinas

  

  Most probably this cruise season 2012/2013 will be remembered not for the record number of calls or visitors (estimated in half a million) but as a new case of Argentine intolerance with the Malvinas Islands in centre stage, writes La Nacion columnist Emiliano Galli.

• Wednesday, December 12th 2012 - 08:05 UTC

  Falklands’ dispute triggers concern among Argentine tourism operators after two cruises omit Ushuaia

  

  Ushuaia tourism operators expressed concern and called for common sense to prevail after two major cruises finally decided this week not to call at in Argentine Tierra del Fuego after local authorities could not guarantee that the visiting vessels would not be exposed to the same intimidation tactics and delays experienced recently in Buenos Aires and earlier this year in the extreme south terminal because they include the Falkland Islands in their itineraries.

• Friday, March 2nd 2012 - 05:22 UTC

  Falklands confused over Ushuaia decision to turn away cruise vessels

  

  The Falkland Islands government and tourist industry admit to being confused and thus unable to comment in any great detail on the recent decision, apparently, by the Argentine provincial Government of Tierra del Fuego, turning away from Ushuaia two British flagged cruise ships earlier this week.

• Monday, February 27th 2012 - 16:41 UTC

  Port of Ushuaia refuses entry of cruise vessels that visited the Falkland Islands

  

  Argentina has banned two cruise ships from calling at Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego after they visited the Falkland Islands, apparently based on recent provincial legislation, according to reports in the Ushuaia media.