Argentina Banknotes 50 Pesos banknote 2015 Islas Malvinas - Falkland Islands
Central Bank of Argentina - Banco Central de la República Argentina
The 50 peso note, launched under the slogan: "Malvinas Islands: A sovereign love."
The notes were swiftly ridiculed by the Islanders themselves. "Surprised they can afford a colour printer," said one, referring to the struggling Argentine economy.
Obverse: The 50 peso note, has been designed and produced by Argentina's Mint House, and shows the outline of Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands), South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; map of the South Atlantic territories and another map of Latin America and the Caribbean including the Argentina Antarctic Territory - meant to show the support Argentina has rallied among regional nations in its long-standing sovereignty dispute against London., Giant kelp (seaweed), albatross.
Reverse: On the other side features an image of Gaucho Antonio Rivero with argentine flag - an Argentine rancher, or gaucho, who in 1833 is alleged to have headed the resistance fight against the British occupation of the archipelago.; Landscape and Darwin cemetery (Argentine cemetery on the Falkland Islands that holds the remains of 237 Argentine combatants killed during the 1982 Falklands War. It is located west of the Darwin Settlement close to the location of the Battle of Goose Green.); light cruiser General Belgrano (sunk by the Royal Navy during the Falklands War, 02.05.1982); Falkland seagull (gaviota malvinense).
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50 Pesos, Islas Malvinas - Falkland Islands 100 Pesos, Eva Peron
50 Pesos, Islas Malvinas - Falkland Islands 100 Pesos, Eva Peron
Gaucho Antonio Rivero
Antonio “El Gaucho" Rivero was a gaucho who murdered the five leading members of the settlement of Port Louis on the Falkland Islands on 26 August 1833.
Rivero was born in Concepción del Uruguay, at that time a rural village in Entre Ríos Province, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, now part of Argentina on November 27, 1808.
When he was about 20 years old, he was taken to the Falkland Islands by Luis Vernet, to work as a gaucho. Conditions of employment caused discontent among Vernet's workers. They were paid with promissory notes which Matthew Brisbane, Vernet's deputy, devalued following the reduction in Vernet's fortunes. On August 26, 1833, eight months after the British took control of the Falkland Islands, Rivero led a group of Creoles and Indians in an attack against the senior members of Vernet's settlement.
His co-conspirators were two gauchos, Juan Brasido and José María Luna, and five Charrúa Indians, Manuel González, Luciano Flores, Felipe Salazar, Pascual Latorre and Manuel Godoy. They killed five men, Captain Brisbane, Juan Simón (foreman of the gauchos), Dickson, Antonio Vehingar and Ventura Pasos. The population of that time, mainly women and children, fled to the nearby Peat island, until rescued by the sealer Hopeful in October 1833, who then passed information about the murders to the British squadron at Rio de Janeiro.
In January 1834, the British ship HMS Challenger arrived in the islands, bringing Lt Henry Smith, who set out to capture the murderers, who fled into the interior. The gang was sent for trial in London but under the British Legal system could not be tried, because the Crown Court did not have jurisdiction over the Falkland Islands at the time of the alleged offences. In the British colonial system, colonies had their own, distinct governments, finances, and judicial systems. Rivero was not tried and sentenced because the British local government and local judiciary had not yet been installed in 1834; these were created later, by the 1841 British Letters Patent. Subsequently, Rivero has acquired the status of a folk hero in Argentina, where he is portrayed as leading a rebellion against British rule. Ironically, it was Rivero's actions that were responsible for the ultimate demise of Vernet's enterprise on the Falklands. They were deported to Rio de Janeiro, and returned later to the zone of the Río de la Plata.
The circumstances of Rivero's death are unknown.
Argentine Navy light cruiser General Belgrano
The ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Previously named USS Phoenix, she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold to Argentina. The vessel was the second to have been named after the Argentine founding father Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820). The first vessel was a 7,069-ton armoured cruiser completed in 1899.
After almost 31 years of service, she was sunk during the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas or Guerra del Atlántico Sur) by the Royal Navy submarine Conqueror with the loss of 323 lives. Losses from General Belgrano totalled just over half of Argentine military deaths in the war.
She is the only ship ever to have been sunk during military operations by a nuclear-powered submarine and the second sunk in action by any type of submarine since World War II, the first being the Indian frigate INS Khukri by the Pakistani Submarine PNS Hangor during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War. The sinking of General Belgrano was highly controversial in both the United Kingdom and Argentina at the time and remains so to this day.
In 2012 the President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner referred to the sinking of General Belgrano as a "war crime". During that year, the Argentine government was also reported to possibly be considering filing a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice against the UK regarding the event. However, the Argentine Navy has historically held the view that the sinking was a legitimate act of war, a position that was asserted by the Argentine Navy before various courts in 1995, and as of 2015 no such lawsuit has been filed with the ICJ.