Argentine historian Luis Alberto Romero is happy. This weekend, a dream will come true for him - one of direct democracy, as once proposed by the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The residents of the Falkland Islands have the chance to vote whether or not they wish to continue belonging to Britain. It is the first time for them that they have the opportunity to have an input in the conflict surrounding the rocky isles of the South Atlantic. Romero belongs to a group of Argentine intellectuals, Read more [...]

In the last match of this 2012/2013 World Series of Boxing (WSB) Regular Season, last year's finalists used their experience to surpass the Condors' obstacle with style. But no matter this last-minute success, Argentina keeps fourth spot in Group A thanks to a lower number of walkovers. In the Bantamweight (50-54kg) contest, two WSB debutants gave a superb battle to the audience of the Konti Sport Recreation Center in St Petersburg. Russia's 22-year-old Nazir Balaev and Argentine Read more [...]

Voters in the Falkland Islands hold a referendum on their future tomorrow 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. That has unsettled some of the roughly 2,500 islanders and strengthened patriotic feeling.Just 1,649 Read more [...]

An appeals court in Argentina convicted former President Carlos Saúl Menem on Friday of smuggling contraband weapons in the 1990s. Weapons and munitions officially destined to Panama and Venezuela ended up in Ecuador during its brief war with Peru, violating a bilateral peace agreement, and in Croatia during the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia amid an international weapons embargo. The ruling overturned a lower court’s 2011 acquittal of Mr. Menem, left, whose 1989-1999 presidency was marred Read more [...]

 

 

 

Argentina advances at World Softball Champs

A second consecutive seven-under 65 score has seen Argentine Andres Romero take the lead in the Puerto Rico Open on Friday as Australian Cameron Percy finds himself just five strokes off the lead.Argentine Romero, though, may have double-bogeyed the par-three eighth hole in his second round at the Rio Grande course, but it proved a minor blip as he also reeled off nine birdies in an impressive display.In his last two rounds Romero has now posted 16 birdies and an eagle and his Read more [...]

Lambert: 'It was one of the hardest things I've ever done'

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Every Tuesday, a group of Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war gather on the outskirts of Buenos Aires to cook up a barbecue, share memories and plan new campaigns. For them, of course, the islands are the Malvinas, not the Falklands, Port Stanley is Port Argentina, and sovereignty belongs to the government in Buenos Aires, not the one in London.Now middle-aged, they plan media and education campaigns, arrange interviews, lobby the government and consider how to counter any move that seems Read more [...]

Menem acknowledged signing secret decrees to export weapons to Venezuela and Panama, but said he had no idea that the tons of rifles and ammunition made in Argentina would end up in Ecuador and Croatia, countries subject to international embargoes at the time.The appeals court called his defense “incomprehensible,” given voluminous evidence that customs procedures weren’t followed amid pressure from the presidency. The court found that Menem’s brother-in-law and “man of confidence,” Emir Read more [...]