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Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 00:00
Thirty years after the Falklands/Malvinas war, Latin America seems to be closing ranks behind Argentina's sovereignty claim over the disputed islands and reviving a bid for control in the resource-rich South Atlantic.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 00:00
It was 1982 and Peru had returned to the path of democracy. Belaunde Terry was elected president, the same man the military ousted in 1968, and he was no friend of military or right wing dictatorships.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 00:00
Texas lawmakers and security officials have asked the Pentagon to send surplus military equipment from Iraq to the US-Mexico border. This could include more unmanned planes, even though the effectiveness of the technology in fighting drug trafficking is q
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 00:00
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, rhetoric over the islands' status has yet again escalated in the lead up to Argentina and the United Kingdom marking the hostilities and the 900 soldiers (including three islanders) who died during the conflict.
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 00:00
The group also question that from "right to left" many argue that "having shed the archipelago with Argentine blood, cultivation of the Malvinas cause becomes mandatory".
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 00:00
With the approach of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war, Fernandez has picked a protracted and bruising diplomatic fight with the old enemy.
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 00:00
Cristina Fernandez will close the ceremony with a message on national television when she is expected to make some announcements on the growing diplomatic escalade with Britain over the sovereignty of the Falklands and other South Atlantic Islands.
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 00:00
The Uruguayan government through the Ministry of Defence gave the green light to a local air cargo company, Airclass which requested authorization to make a commercial flight to the Falkland Islands sometime this month.
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 00:00
"To strengthen the market and the export power of Ciudad Juarez, we need to provide emergency treatment through the tax system," Enrique Pena Nieto, favorite to win the July election, told supporters in this industrial city on the U.S. border.
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 00:00
Military spending has been cut back savagely. Argentina's air force is still only equipped with the planes it had in 1982.