{"id":19413,"date":"2013-03-13T08:24:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19413"},"modified":"2013-03-13T08:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:25:03","slug":"argentinian-president-derides-falkland-islanders-as-squatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/argentinian-president-derides-falkland-islanders-as-squatters\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentinian president derides Falkland Islanders as &#8220;squatters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured the Argentine government would brush off the overwhelming result of the Falkland Islands referendum once it became clear that the result <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/383929\/Argentine-president-dismisses-Falklands-vote-as-a-parody-and-calls-islanders-squatters\" target=\"_blank\">would not flatter Argentinian egos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In her first public comment on the referendum, the outspoken president dismissed the vote as a &#8220;parody&#8221; and thanked Argentinians for their &#8220;monolithic opposition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She said the referendum, where residents voted in favour of remaining a British overseas territory, was &#8220;as if a group of squatters had voted on whether to continue to occupy a building&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an event at the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, she added: &#8220;We reaffirm our commitment to dialogue in accordance with the UN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To achieve a solution that also included the interests of those who live on our Malvinas islands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She quoted British Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire as saying that the referendum result didn&#8217;t change the situation &#8220;from a legal point of view&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The vote wasn&#8217;t even close, with only three votes for the &#8220;No&#8221; option out of 1,517 total votes cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured the Argentine government would brush off the overwhelming result of the Falkland Islands referendum once it became clear that the result would not flatter Argentinian egos: In her first public comment on the referendum, the outspoken president dismissed the vote as a &#8220;parody&#8221; and thanked Argentinians for their &#8220;monolithic opposition&#8221;. She said 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":[465,4],"tags":[492,188,493],"class_list":["post-19413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-britain","tag-argentina","tag-electionwatch","tag-falklandislands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-537","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413","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=19413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19415,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions\/19415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}