Falklands Are British, Not Argentine; U.S. Should Back the U.K. as Dispute over Islands Resumes
However, a recent poll shows that for 54 percent of the British, the islands’ belonging to the United Kingdom is not relevant and 72 percent accept the use of the name Malvinas (instead of Falklands), in addition to seeing in this issue the remnants and even excesses of the colonial sys...
during which he had the chance to visit many exotic places—among them Rawalpindi, the Khyber Pass, Sri Lanka, Tokyo, Zululand, Mombasa, Bahrain, Tangier, Turkey, Norway, Finland, South Georgia and the Falklands. He has also travelled widely in his private...
Our second day on the Falklands took us to Volunteer Point to check out the King and Magellanic penguins. The 2-1/2 hour ride (each way) in a LandRover with our trusty local driver, Sue, was a trip in itself. Much of the Falklands is roadless and it was a thrilling, if somewhat ...
I suspect this is because many of them are really hard to reach (Pitcairn can only be reached by boat that departs every 2 weeks, Saint Helena on an expensive flight, the Falklands on a cruise ship), or are relatively safe parts of countries that are at war (e.g.Somaliland is saferco...
Even when we had wars in the eighties (Afghanistan, Falklands, etc) it was sure as hell to us and the whole fucking world who was right and who was wrong. I figure that we should all go back to wearing tight jeans (no belts), a T-shirt and running shoes like back in the ...
Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s first female prime minister, who came to power at an unsettled time in the country’s history, as it faced political disharmony and economic recession. Further trials, including the 1982 Falklands War and the conflict in Northern Ireland, helped to define her inf...
“tension” that amounts to a contemporary manifestation of “history painting.”24In the 2000s, Larrambebere would similarly derive paintings from archives of visual and material culture related to Pan American World Airways, the Malvinas (Falklands) War, and Guyana, in addition to further ...
General Guillermo Suárez Masón, who was part of Argentina's military junta that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983, once played in goal for Argentinos Juniors' youth side. He was later charged with 430 disappearances and 39 murders following the regime's collapse after the Falklands Conflict...
It says something about our age that journalists of the calibre of Burns and Carlin have been drawn from important subjects to football. Burns's first book, The Land that Lost its Heroes: How Argentina Lost the Falklands War, was lauded by a Moscow-bound Graham Greene. Carlin was such an...