b787
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why do you say that explain your opinion, in my opinion she has the right to defend her countries rights in the waters that belong to them.
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what can Argentina do? arm to the teeth? she is logic in the terms diplomacy is the only way to prevent another war, Argentina only has two paths, one is Argentina arms it self for war or does diplomacy, war is not an option since all Latin America supports Argentina for the Malvinas, diplomacy in reality will be the only possible way unless you want to engage in a war that only can be won if you become a nuclear power like China did with Hong Kong.
Remember the opium war England did to China, England left Hong Kong because China is a nuclear power, they do not leave the south Atlantic because they know no South American nation is a nuclear power
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Bolivia commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the Chaco War
(Defensa.com) The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, attended the ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in the Chaco War, that faced Bolivia and Paraguay by border problems and territorial possession of a strip with wealth oil. The Chaco War began in 1932 and lasted until 1935, more than 60,000 Bolivian soldiers killed in this military conflict, which cost Bolivia the loss of the Chaco, an area of 110,000 km2.
The June 12, 1935 was signed in Buenos Aires Protocol of Peace, which initiated the ceasefire between the two armies, on July 18 of that year, in Puerto Merino, the meeting of the commanders of the armies occurred both countries and the demobilization process began. The commemoration was held in the town of Villamontes, located in the southern province of Gran Chaco, with the presence of President of the State together with his ministers and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Bolivia.
The Ministry of Defense of Bolivia appoints new head of CODAFENA
Moreover, and pursuant to the Ministerial Resolution No. 364/2015, the Minister of Defense of Bolivia, Reymi Ferreira, possessed the new General Manager of the Corporation of the Armed Forces for National Development (COFADENA), the Cnl. DAEN. Felipe Eduardo Vasquez Moya. COFADENA is the governing body of productive enterprises of the Armed Forces.
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(Defensa.com) The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, attended the ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in the Chaco War, that faced Bolivia and Paraguay by border problems and territorial possession of a strip with wealth oil. The Chaco War began in 1932 and lasted until 1935, more than 60,000 Bolivian soldiers killed in this military conflict, which cost Bolivia the loss of the Chaco, an area of 110,000 km2.
The June 12, 1935 was signed in Buenos Aires Protocol of Peace, which initiated the ceasefire between the two armies, on July 18 of that year, in Puerto Merino, the meeting of the commanders of the armies occurred both countries and the demobilization process began. The commemoration was held in the town of Villamontes, located in the southern province of Gran Chaco, with the presence of President of the State together with his ministers and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Bolivia.
The Ministry of Defense of Bolivia appoints new head of CODAFENA
Moreover, and pursuant to the Ministerial Resolution No. 364/2015, the Minister of Defense of Bolivia, Reymi Ferreira, possessed the new General Manager of the Corporation of the Armed Forces for National Development (COFADENA), the Cnl. DAEN. Felipe Eduardo Vasquez Moya. COFADENA is the governing body of productive enterprises of the Armed Forces.
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Corruption scandals roil Guatemala and Honduras
Massive corruption scandals in two key allies of the United States in Central America, Guatemala and Honduras, are producing large demonstrations calling for the resignations of the presidents of both countries.
In Honduras, a major scandal erupted when it was revealed that officials close to right-wing President Juan Orlando Hernandez had stolen money from the social welfare and health care budget and had surreptitiously given it to Hernandez's political party, the National Party, for the purposes of winning the 2013 presidential elections.
At that time supporters of the runner up, leftist Xiomara Castro de Zelaya of the LIBRE party, had denounced the elections as fraudulent, and this new information supports that claim. Adding to the indignation is a decision by the Supreme Court, packed with Hernandez supporters, that Hernandez can run for re-election, which invalidates the Honduran constitution's prohibition on second terms. When former President Manuel Zelaya, Xiomara Castro's husband, was overthrown in a military coup in June 2009, the pretext was that he was secretly planning to run for re-election. So large scale demonstrations are being carried out by LIBRE and its broad mass support base, demanding that Hernandez resign.
In Guatemala, the main scandal, called "La Linea," has to do with bribery of officials by wealthy people and companies wishing to evade taxes and customs duties, as well as crooked subcontracting and other things. High ranking members of the government of the right wing president, General Otto Perez Molina, of the Patriotic Party, are facing prosecution. The vice president, Roxanna Baldetti, was forced to resign on May 8, and people in the president's own office are also implicated. Perez Molina increased public alienation by appointing as the new Vice President a judge who had helped the former dictator, Efrain Rios Montt, evade punishment for genocide.
The networks that carried out the illegal acts go back decades and involve several former presidents (including Rios Montt), army officers, judges and many others. Many, including Baldetti's personal secretary, are being prosecuted, but only because of independent investigations by the U.N. sponsored International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
Honduras (population 8 million) and Guatemala (population 15 million) are two of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Both governments have imposed on their peoples neo-liberal policies of austerity, privatization and free trade, and have steered clear of the Bolivarian movement which has swept the region. In both countries, poverty has been rising and personal security has become increasingly shaky. Both presidents managed to get elected by promising a "hard hand" (mano dura) against criminals and especially drug traffickers. A particularly galling dimension of the scandal in Guatemala is that President Perez Molina had announced more budget cuts and austerity because tax collections were not bringing in enough money, and now it is revealed that a huge percentage of taxes on the rich were evaded in exchange for bribes paid to people in his government.
Some of the bribery appears to have involved foreign mining companies wishing to open operations in Guatemala, an especially touchy issue for rural indigenous populations which have been battling against polluting and exploitative extractive industries.
The developments in Honduras are likely to help the left, though there won't be a general election there until 2017. One of the pretexts for Zelaya's overthrow was a false claim that he planned to try to run for an illegal second term. What really frightened the Honduran elites and the United States government was that Zelaya was bringing Honduras into alignment with the Bolivarian group of left and left-center ruled countries, and specifically Cuba and Venezuela. When Zelaya was overthrown the other Latin American countries pushed to restore constitutional order and return Zelaya to power, but the United States created pressure to go ahead with a dubious election, which brought in right-wing president Porfirio Lobo. Under Lobo and Hernandez, Honduras has become a hyper violent state in which women, gay-lesbian-transgendered activists, ethnic minorities, peasant and labor leaders and political oppositionists are especially targeted for murderous attacks.
The left-wing LIBRE Party has been playing a major role in the anti-Hernandez demonstrations, and seems likely to gain traction from the disgrace of the Hernandez administration.
In Guatemala, which has general elections on September 6, the prospects for the left are murkier. In the last elections, in 2011, the indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu, running as the candidate of the leftist URNG-Maiz party, got only 3.27 percent of the vote. The outgoing centrist president, Alvaro Colom, tried to run his wife, Sandra Torres, for president, under the banner of the National Unity of Hope Party. However, the Guatemalan constitution forbids spouses of incumbent presidents from qualifying as candidates. Colom and Torres tried to get around this by getting a divorce widely seen as fake. The courts disqualified Torres, and the Unity of Hope party ended up with no presidential candidate.
Whether any of the parties on the left or left-center can get enough traction by the time of the elections remains to be seen. At least 41 percent of the Guatemalan population is indigenous. This has led to discussion of a possible presidential candidacy Congressman Amilcar Pop of the leftist Winaq Party. Pop is a Q'eqchi Maya lawyer and defender of indigenous rights. However, it is not clear that such a candidacy would be viable with three months to go and with the indigenous electorate marginalized, by poverty and repression, from the process.
Meanwhile, demonstrations continue in both countries, advancing the demands for constituent assemblies to completely restructure the thoroughly compromised existing political institution.
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Massive corruption scandals in two key allies of the United States in Central America, Guatemala and Honduras, are producing large demonstrations calling for the resignations of the presidents of both countries.
In Honduras, a major scandal erupted when it was revealed that officials close to right-wing President Juan Orlando Hernandez had stolen money from the social welfare and health care budget and had surreptitiously given it to Hernandez's political party, the National Party, for the purposes of winning the 2013 presidential elections.
At that time supporters of the runner up, leftist Xiomara Castro de Zelaya of the LIBRE party, had denounced the elections as fraudulent, and this new information supports that claim. Adding to the indignation is a decision by the Supreme Court, packed with Hernandez supporters, that Hernandez can run for re-election, which invalidates the Honduran constitution's prohibition on second terms. When former President Manuel Zelaya, Xiomara Castro's husband, was overthrown in a military coup in June 2009, the pretext was that he was secretly planning to run for re-election. So large scale demonstrations are being carried out by LIBRE and its broad mass support base, demanding that Hernandez resign.
In Guatemala, the main scandal, called "La Linea," has to do with bribery of officials by wealthy people and companies wishing to evade taxes and customs duties, as well as crooked subcontracting and other things. High ranking members of the government of the right wing president, General Otto Perez Molina, of the Patriotic Party, are facing prosecution. The vice president, Roxanna Baldetti, was forced to resign on May 8, and people in the president's own office are also implicated. Perez Molina increased public alienation by appointing as the new Vice President a judge who had helped the former dictator, Efrain Rios Montt, evade punishment for genocide.
The networks that carried out the illegal acts go back decades and involve several former presidents (including Rios Montt), army officers, judges and many others. Many, including Baldetti's personal secretary, are being prosecuted, but only because of independent investigations by the U.N. sponsored International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
Honduras (population 8 million) and Guatemala (population 15 million) are two of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Both governments have imposed on their peoples neo-liberal policies of austerity, privatization and free trade, and have steered clear of the Bolivarian movement which has swept the region. In both countries, poverty has been rising and personal security has become increasingly shaky. Both presidents managed to get elected by promising a "hard hand" (mano dura) against criminals and especially drug traffickers. A particularly galling dimension of the scandal in Guatemala is that President Perez Molina had announced more budget cuts and austerity because tax collections were not bringing in enough money, and now it is revealed that a huge percentage of taxes on the rich were evaded in exchange for bribes paid to people in his government.
Some of the bribery appears to have involved foreign mining companies wishing to open operations in Guatemala, an especially touchy issue for rural indigenous populations which have been battling against polluting and exploitative extractive industries.
The developments in Honduras are likely to help the left, though there won't be a general election there until 2017. One of the pretexts for Zelaya's overthrow was a false claim that he planned to try to run for an illegal second term. What really frightened the Honduran elites and the United States government was that Zelaya was bringing Honduras into alignment with the Bolivarian group of left and left-center ruled countries, and specifically Cuba and Venezuela. When Zelaya was overthrown the other Latin American countries pushed to restore constitutional order and return Zelaya to power, but the United States created pressure to go ahead with a dubious election, which brought in right-wing president Porfirio Lobo. Under Lobo and Hernandez, Honduras has become a hyper violent state in which women, gay-lesbian-transgendered activists, ethnic minorities, peasant and labor leaders and political oppositionists are especially targeted for murderous attacks.
The left-wing LIBRE Party has been playing a major role in the anti-Hernandez demonstrations, and seems likely to gain traction from the disgrace of the Hernandez administration.
In Guatemala, which has general elections on September 6, the prospects for the left are murkier. In the last elections, in 2011, the indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu, running as the candidate of the leftist URNG-Maiz party, got only 3.27 percent of the vote. The outgoing centrist president, Alvaro Colom, tried to run his wife, Sandra Torres, for president, under the banner of the National Unity of Hope Party. However, the Guatemalan constitution forbids spouses of incumbent presidents from qualifying as candidates. Colom and Torres tried to get around this by getting a divorce widely seen as fake. The courts disqualified Torres, and the Unity of Hope party ended up with no presidential candidate.
Whether any of the parties on the left or left-center can get enough traction by the time of the elections remains to be seen. At least 41 percent of the Guatemalan population is indigenous. This has led to discussion of a possible presidential candidacy Congressman Amilcar Pop of the leftist Winaq Party. Pop is a Q'eqchi Maya lawyer and defender of indigenous rights. However, it is not clear that such a candidacy would be viable with three months to go and with the indigenous electorate marginalized, by poverty and repression, from the process.
Meanwhile, demonstrations continue in both countries, advancing the demands for constituent assemblies to completely restructure the thoroughly compromised existing political institution.
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Former First Lady of Mexico Announces Presidential Bid for 2018 Election
The wife of Mexico’s ex-president Felipe Calderon, announced that she would seek the National Action Party (PAN) presidential nomination for the 2018 election.
MEXICO (Sputnik) – Margarita Zavala, the wife of Mexico’s ex-president Felipe Calderon, announced that she would seek the National Action Party (PAN) presidential nomination for the 2018 election.
"In the present serious circumstances, I consider that the PAN should look for a leader, seeking a consensus. I am not fighting for just a right to lead, there are other men and women in high positions in the party, but I believe that in the PAN we will make the best decision," Zavala said in a statement published online Sunday.
The main goal for PAN, one of the top three political parties in Mexico, is to reconcile with civil society, she added.
Calderon, a PAN party member, was Mexican president from 2006-2012. His policies were built on a foundation of strong resistance to crime.
After stepping down from the presidency, Calderon accepted a yearlong fellowship offer from Harvard University in the United States.
At last week's parliamentary election, PAN received more than 20 percent of votes, some 10 percent behind the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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The wife of Mexico’s ex-president Felipe Calderon, announced that she would seek the National Action Party (PAN) presidential nomination for the 2018 election.
MEXICO (Sputnik) – Margarita Zavala, the wife of Mexico’s ex-president Felipe Calderon, announced that she would seek the National Action Party (PAN) presidential nomination for the 2018 election.
"In the present serious circumstances, I consider that the PAN should look for a leader, seeking a consensus. I am not fighting for just a right to lead, there are other men and women in high positions in the party, but I believe that in the PAN we will make the best decision," Zavala said in a statement published online Sunday.
The main goal for PAN, one of the top three political parties in Mexico, is to reconcile with civil society, she added.
Calderon, a PAN party member, was Mexican president from 2006-2012. His policies were built on a foundation of strong resistance to crime.
After stepping down from the presidency, Calderon accepted a yearlong fellowship offer from Harvard University in the United States.
At last week's parliamentary election, PAN received more than 20 percent of votes, some 10 percent behind the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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New aircraft for the Argentine Army Aviation
(defensa.com) The first of two Cessna Grand Caravan EX 208 recently acquired by the Argentine Army landed at the military airfield of Campo de Mayo. The challenge to bring this aircraft in flight to the country was led by captain Victor Hugo Paglialonga and Lieutenant Fernando Andres Franzutti, covering the long journey, from the Cessna plant in Wichita, USA, to Campo de Mayo, in a total of five days of flight. This aircraft command and liaison, accommodates two pilots and twelve passengers. While you can perform medical evacuation capabilities, as your cab allows the incorporation of a stretcher and basic patient care equipment.
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(defensa.com) The first of two Cessna Grand Caravan EX 208 recently acquired by the Argentine Army landed at the military airfield of Campo de Mayo. The challenge to bring this aircraft in flight to the country was led by captain Victor Hugo Paglialonga and Lieutenant Fernando Andres Franzutti, covering the long journey, from the Cessna plant in Wichita, USA, to Campo de Mayo, in a total of five days of flight. This aircraft command and liaison, accommodates two pilots and twelve passengers. While you can perform medical evacuation capabilities, as your cab allows the incorporation of a stretcher and basic patient care equipment.
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I found some old pictures of when Argentina had a real Navy with a real Naval Aviation:
Pictures taken on-board the Carrier ARA Independencia
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Pictures taken on-board the Carrier ARA Independencia
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Miragedriver
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B787,
Jeff may not be aware of the day to day goings on in Latin America, However he is correct on the vast majority of his comments regarding issues and call outs of world leaders as they really are. I my opinion Jeff has defiantly hit the nail on the head in this situation.
Christina is an embarrassment to the people of Argentina and especially on the world stage. The nation will never be taken seriously with such an inconsistent and incompetent person in office.
To answer your question. Yes a nation dose have the right to defend its interest, but that requires foresight and planning especially if you are going to rattle the saber. The late Hugo Chavez is of the same ilk as Christina, with the exception being that Hugo Chavez understood the value of a well-equipped and trained military. Additionally he had two things that Christina will never have: Intelligence and testicular fortitude.
Even dead he is more effective as a world leader than she will ever be.
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Well put Jeff! Touché!
b787
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I can understand what you mean, i do not understand all Latin american politicians but i do understand the corruption we live, so i can relate, i do not know Cristina`s domestic policies, but internationally i do not think she is like you portrait her, one because Argentina does not have the ability to match England Militarily, and here i am not talking Eurofighters or aircraft carriers, i am tell you England is a bully has nuclear weapons,and yields them in the south Atlantic with impunity.
I do not doubt Brazil, Mexico or even Argentina can become nuclear powers, however the wisdom of doing it has been questioned by These nations thus their nuclear power programs are peaceful, thus when you have a nuclear power with nuclear submarines and the possibility they have nuclear weapons near your coast Argentina only can simply protest, and in that she is right, she has much more credibility in the international Arena than England, at least all Latin america Supports you and that Includes Brazil who also thinks the British are a threat to them.
So to be honest i do not think she is an embarrassment,she is applying the only possible policy you really have left
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