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FLAprogressive

(6,771 posts)
Mon Apr 2, 2012, 09:43 PM Apr 2012

Argentina (yet again) pushes its claim over the Falkland Islands.

"Protesters in Argentina have clashed with riot police outside the British embassy on the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.

Argentina claims the British-ruled islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, and calls it Malvinas.

Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, the Argentine president, has recently stepped up a diplomatic offensive against Britain.

Her government has tried to get the backing of Latin American nations in its claim and has also tried to take economic measures to isolate the Falkland Islands.

Teresa Bo reports from Buenos Aires."

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/04/201243035319985.html?utm_content=automate&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=NewSocialFlow&utm_term=plustweets&utm_medium=MasterAccount

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Not this shit again. Argentina has never had full, legal control over the Falklands, and the islands have never had indigenous population. The islanders are ethnically British, and do not want to be Argentine.

When will Argentina just get the fuck over it? Their claims of the islands are about as legitimate as if the Dominican Republic tried to claim Puerto Rico.

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