{"id":18253,"date":"2012-12-19T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18253"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:05:21","slug":"ara-libertad-finally-free-to-sail-home-from-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/ara-libertad-finally-free-to-sail-home-from-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>ARA Libertad<\/em> finally free to sail home from Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following the debt-related travails of the Argentine navy&#8217;s flagship, you&#8217;ll recall that the ship was impounded on a visit to Ghana back in October. The BBC is now reporting that the ship has been released, and Argentinian sailors will be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-20790567\" target=\"_blank\">take the frigate<\/a> home after a UN court decision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <em>Libertad<\/em> set sail from Ghana&#8217;s main port of Tema after a United Nations court last week ordered its release.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina sent almost 100 navy personnel to man the three-masted training ship.<\/p>\n<p>It was impounded after a financial fund said it was owed money by Argentina&#8217;s government as a result of a debt default a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>In November, sailors on board the <em>Libertad<\/em> reportedly pulled guns on Ghanaian officials when they tried to board the vessel to move it to another berth.<\/p>\n<p>The lengthy diplomatic row began when the ship was prevented from leaving Ghana on 2 October, after a local court ruled in favour of financial fund NML Capital. The fund is a subsidiary of US hedge fund Elliot Capital Management which is one of Argentina&#8217;s former creditors. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Initial report on the seizure <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/flagship-of-argentinian-navy-seized-for-unpaid-government-debt-in-ghana\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/follow-up-argentine-flagship-crew-to-fly-home-after-three-week-delay\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following the debt-related travails of the Argentine navy&#8217;s flagship, you&#8217;ll recall that the ship was impounded on a visit to Ghana back in October. The BBC is now reporting that the ship has been released, and Argentinian sailors will be able to take the frigate home after a UN court decision: The [&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":[492,71,850,30,851,691],"class_list":["post-18253","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-tallships","tag-unitednations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Kp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253","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=18253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18254,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253\/revisions\/18254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}