Tag: Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
STANLEY, FALKLAND ISLANDS – In nearby Argentina, President Cristina Kirchner and her ministers offered not a single word after the death this week of Margaret Thatcher. Absolute silence was the strictest order of the day in the halls of government in Buenos Aires. Still, some veterans from the 1982 war did react, including the head […]
BUENOS AIRES HERALD, CLARIN, LA RED, PAGINA 12 (Argentina) Worldcrunch BUENOS AIRES – Residents of the Falkland Islands voted en masse in favor of remaining a British territory. Thirty-one years after the UK and Argentina went to war over the remote South-Atlantic archipelago, the referendum asked: “Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their […]