Militant Argentine dockers stop luxury cruise liner from leaving port because its next stop was the Falklands

December 6th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The Seabourn Sojourn was blocked by Argentine port workers who want to stop the ship sailing to the islands
Union leaders were demanding that the liner’s captain pledges not to visit the Falklands before being allowed to set sail
After a seven-hour delay, the boat was allowed to leave the port
The vessel, with 330 crew, was due to set off yesterday on a 15-day cruise around Patagonia, visiting the Falkland Islands and ending up in Chile
Passengers paid between £4,200 and £9,300 each for the trip, depending on their choice of cabin

By
Tom Worden

PUBLISHED:

12:07 EST, 5 December 2012

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UPDATED:

06:27 EST, 6 December 2012

A luxury cruise liner with up to 450 passengers on board was prevented from leaving an Argentine port today in a protest over the Falkland Islands.

The Seabourn Sojourn was blocked in by Argentine port workers who want to prevent the ship sailing to the disputed islands.

The vessel was later allowed to leave the port at Buenos Aires following a delay of seven hours.

Union leaders were demanding that the liner’s captain pledges not to visit the Falklands before being allowed to set sail.

Blocked: The Seabourn Sojourn, which sails under the British flag, was blocked in by Argentine port workers who want to prevent the ship sailing to the disputed islands

Blocked: The Seabourn Sojourn was blocked in by Argentine port workers who want to prevent the ship sailing to the disputed islands

The vessel, with 330 crew, was due to
set off yesterday at 5pm local time on a 15-day cruise around Patagonia,
visiting the Falkland Islands and ending up in Valparaiso, Chile.

The company’s UK marketing director Carly Perkins said there were a ‘significant number’ of British passengers on board but could not give a figure.

She said: ‘The ship has been able to resume its schedule. It was delayed but it has now left Buenos Aires.’

Passengers paid between £4,200 and £9,300 each for the trip, depending on their choice of cabin.

The ship was scheduled to make an eight-hour stop at the Falklands’ capital Port Stanley.

Passengers are offered a four-hour tour around the battlefields from the 1982 War, including Mount Tumbledown and Mount Longdon, scenes of some of the fiercest fighting.

Workers from the United Maritime Workers Union (SOMU) prevented the Seabourn Sojourn from leaving the port in Buenos Aires.

They had the backing of the radical Malvinas Resistance group, which demands the return of the islands, known as Las Malvinas in South America, to Argentina.

Tony Lopez, spokesman for the group, said the ship would not be allowed to set sail until it had confirmed it would not sail to the archipelago, 300 miles off the coast of Argentina.

He described the cruise liner as ‘a pirate ship’ and said the ship would be violating the
Gaucho Rivero law, designed to stop British ships from ‘plundering’
Argentine resources in the area.

Arriving in Hong Kong: The ship’s 450 passengers paid between £4,200 and £9,300 each for the trip. It boasts 225 cabins spread over eight decks, a casino and two swimming pools

The incident began a day after Argentina’s ambassador to the UK, Alicia Castro, was summed to the Foreign Office to answer allegations of harassment to British ships and shipping companies.

FCO defence and intelligence director, Robert Hannigan, called the ambassador in after masked men raided the Buenos Aires offices of a company offering cruises to the Falklands on November 19.

The Foreign Office described the raid as ‘a violent act of intimidation’.

Ms Castro, a former air stewardess, was said to have been ‘very cross’ at the Foreign Office for ‘wasting her time’.

Trapped: Workers from the United Maritime Workers Union (SOMU) prevented the Seabourn Sojourn from leaving the port in Buenos Aires as it headed for the Falkland Islands

Stop over: The ship was scheduled to make an eight-hour stop at the Falklands’ capital Port Stanley, pictured

Last April she angered Foreign Secretary William Hague by hijacking a meeting on human rights to repeatedly ask him about the Falklands dispute.

The Seabourn Sojourn was launched in the River Thames in June 2010 by the model, actress and singer Twiggy.

The ship, which boasts 225 cabins spread over eight decks, a casino and two swimming pools, is owned by US company Seabourn. It was not clear how many Britons were on board.

A spokeswoman for the company in London was unable to give an immediate comment.

In February Argentine officials refused to allow three cruise ships to dock in the southern port city of Ushuaia following a protest by war veterans.

Tourism chiefs in the area accused the officials of ‘economic suicide’ at the time.

The Gaucho Rivero law, passed last August, was named after an Argentine worker who led a 1833 mutiny against the British in the Falklands.

It was only expected to be used against British military vessels and those involved in fishing and oil exploration.

The comments below have not been moderated.

Argentina wishing you a ‘Merry Default Day’ scheduled for the 15th December and a ‘happy IMF Red Card scheduled for 17th December. Seasonal greetings.

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BritBob
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Reading,
06/12/2012 11:44

I doubt they’d hang on till the Harbour entrance. Just avoid Corned Beef, no problem, no Argentina.

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terminator
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Manchester, United Kingdom,
06/12/2012 11:34

They’re very good at shooting themselves in both feet…………… If oil IS found in exploitable quantity around the Falklands, Argentine dockers would be among the first to benefit enormously from what would then become necessary……….but ONLY as long as relations between us are FRIENDLY…………If not, Uruguay gets the business instead……….

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Old Robert
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Worcester UK,
06/12/2012 11:23

So the citizens of the Falkland Islands want to remain British, so the Argentinians are boycotting British land and our people. Yet we do nothing. Maybe, just maybe, cutting the millions in aid we give the Argentinians will send a good message?

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The small voice
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Northants,
06/12/2012 10:11

Using Argentinian logic America has claimed ownership of Canada and Cuba, seeing as they’re nearby. Give it up Argentina. You never settled the islands, and the Falklanders wish to remain British subjects. There’s no way to justify your claim.

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Frank the rabbit
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Bristol,
06/12/2012 09:47

ships still fly until the British flag?, im amazed

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ramJET
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Guildford, United Kingdom,
06/12/2012 09:45

I avoid buying Argentine products such as wine and beef.

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Paul
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Luyksgestel,
06/12/2012 09:31

agentians need to stop it any Argentians in this country need to be sent home….. stop using their ports…….if we give them overseas aid needs to be STOPPED RIGHT NOW disgusting behaviour……they act loke a load of pack animals and follow the leader…….they need to be stopped

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netts
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southampton hants, United Kingdom,
06/12/2012 09:10

I just can’t think what makes the Argentine¿s believe they own the Falkland Islands. To my knowledge they have never owned them, the Falkland¿s are hundreds of miles away from Argentina and Islands have been a British colony for a very long time; in fact it may be longer than Argentina has existed. In addition, their claim was well and truly put down in 1982 in the time honored manor that all countries have historically come about; being defeated in war. They need to get over this total nonsense and focus on running their own country.

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Mike
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Oxford,
06/12/2012 08:56

Uppity Spics.

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Tory ex-Conservative
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South coast,
06/12/2012 08:53

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