REUTERS/Ezequiel Pontoriero/DyN Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner greets Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio at the Basilica of Lujan, December 22, 2008. Today signals the first day of Pope Francis reign as the new leader of the Catholic Church, and already the pontiff is faced with a challenge.As Argentines and Catholics across the globe celebrate the election of the first ever Latin American pope, comments made by the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio regarding the Falkland Islands dispute have emerged Continue reading
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Falkland Islands defy Argentine sovereignty push with referendum
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Voters in the remote British-ruled Falkland Islands hold a referendum on their future on Sunday that seeks to challenge Argentina’s increasingly vocal sovereignty claim. Thirty-one years since Britain and Argentina went to war over the windswept archipelago in the South Atlantic, tensions between London and Buenos Aires are running high Continue reading
Falkland Islands row: Argentina's understanding of history is 'laughable'
Its publication is timed to mark the anniversary of when on January 3 1833, Britain took control of the islands from the Argentinians. It reads: The Argentines on the Islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule.” But Prof Dodds said the history of the Islands was a lot more complicated than Kirchner would admit. In the 1760s and 1770s you find a fundamentally messy history of the Falklands, involving the British, the French, the Spanish, and the nascent Argentine republic as well as a little Irish presence as well, he said. Continue reading
Former Falklands governor Rex Hunt dies at 86
LONDON (AP) Sir Rex Hunt, who was governor of the Falkland Islands at the time of the Argentine invasion in 1982, has died. Continue reading
International observers to oversee Falkland Islands vote
STANLEY, Falkland Islands The pending referendum to decide the political future of the Falkland Islands will be done under the scrutiny of a “whole series of international observers” come early 2013, Legislative Assembly member Dr Barry Elsby has said. Dr Elsby, who has responsibility for oil, the environment, historical buildings, mining and demining, told a group of Caribbean journalists yesterday that “the referendum is to try to send a signal to the world about the wishes of the Falkland Islanders as to what they want and how they wish to determine their own future”. The question of the status of the self-governed British overseas territory has occupied centrestage since the British and Argentine war in 1982 after the Argentines invaded the islands originally discovered by the British Continue reading
Falklands 30 year anniversary: Argentina's islands claim based on 'myth'
Mrs Kirchner attempted to persuade the committee that the Argentines and the British should open discussions about the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands with a view to placing the island under Argentinian rule. But Mr Edwards dismissed the claims as based “myth and rumour” Continue reading