{"id":17454,"date":"2012-10-25T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17454"},"modified":"2012-10-24T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:48:04","slug":"follow-up-argentine-flagship-crew-to-fly-home-after-three-week-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/follow-up-argentine-flagship-crew-to-fly-home-after-three-week-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up &#8211; Argentine flagship&#8217;s crew to fly home after three week delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I originally found <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/flagship-of-argentinian-navy-seized-for-unpaid-government-debt-in-ghana\/\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a> at the beginning of the month, and after all this time, the bulk of the Argentinian crew finally fly home. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-20074775\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a> has the update:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Almost 300 sailors left on an Air France plane chartered by the Argentine government.<\/p>\n<p>A skeleton crew is staying on board the three-masted <em>Libertad<\/em> to maintain it.<\/p>\n<p>The tall ship was prevented from leaving Ghana after a local court ruled in favour of a US fund.<\/p>\n<p>The fund, NML Capital, argued it was owed $370m (\u00a3231m) by Argentina&#8217;s government as a result of its debt default a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>An earlier plan for the sailors to fly back on an Argentine plane was scrapped because of fears that the aircraft might itself be impounded as part of the debt dispute.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner condemned the Libertad&#8217;s seizure and made it clear there would be no negotiations with creditors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Q2ARALibertad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ARA-Libertad.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ARA Libertad\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ARA-Libertad.jpg 800w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ARA-Libertad-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ARA-Libertad-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>Photo by Mart\u00edn Otero, 7 April, 2007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I originally found this story at the beginning of the month, and after all this time, the bulk of the Argentinian crew finally fly home. BBC News has the update: Almost 300 sailors left on an Air France plane chartered by the Argentine government. A skeleton crew is staying on board the three-masted Libertad to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,465,84,5],"tags":[492,71,850,30,61,851],"class_list":["post-17454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-government","category-military","tag-argentina","tag-debt","tag-ghana","tag-navy","tag-ships","tag-tallships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4xw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17457,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454\/revisions\/17457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}