Search Results for: ""Tierra del Fuego""

Umm… lo siento, no entender. No hablar español!0
/ March 24, 2012 11:59 am

Umm… lo siento, no entender. No hablar español!

...ions. While the numbers of indigenous communities are small, a million or so in Mexico – a million or so in Venezuela, their impact on countries’ “founding stories” is irreplaceable. In many parts of the Amazon and Tierra del Fuego, some tribes of indigenous people have never encountered Western civilizations. Experts estimate that more than a hundred such tribes may exist in South America alone, representing tens of thousands of people. Due to t...

Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina (I’m With The Brits)1
/ February 3, 2012 12:30 pm

Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina (I’m With The Brits)

...Kirchner of  Argentina chose January to beat our favorite dead horse: the territorial status of the Falkland Islands – excuse me, “Las Malvinas.” Argentina has long claimed that the barren islands off the coast of Tierra del Fuego are their sovereign territory, even going to war over them in the ill-fated Falkland Islands Conflict. But their irascible President has chosen this month to launch a diplomatic spat over this long-dead controversy. Sh...