While Dominica and its ALBA colleagues of the OECS have sought to keep away from a controversial decision of the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA) to keep Falklands ships away from their ports in solidarity with Argentina over that Latin American country’s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, another Caribbean country has found itself unwittingly caught up in that dispute.
The following article in Caribbean News Now explains why two Bermuda-flagged cruise ships were barred from Argentina:
Argentina bars two Bermuda-flagged cruise ships
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Authorities in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego province denied entry on Monday to two Bermuda-flagged cruise ships that were seeking to dock in the southern port of Ushuaia, in incidents linked to the political dispute over the Falkland Islands, CNN reported.
One of the ships — the Star Princess — departed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 18 on a 14-night South America cruise and, because the ship had previously called at Stanley in the Falkland Islands, it was denied entry to Ushuaia.
The P&O cruise liner Adonia, which is on a South American tour from Southampton, England, got a similar reception on Monday, for the same reason.
In 1982, after Argentina invaded the islands, it fought — and lost — a two-month undeclared war with Britain. Argentina continues to press its claim to the islands, which are home to more than 3,000 people, most of them of British descent.
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I WONDER WHY WE HAVE SUCH A PROLONGED GAS SHORTAGE FROM VENEZUELA? HHMM 
it is time for small islands and nations to stick together. that is the only way the west will stop exploiting us. you see some countries have heart and stand up about principal. screw little dinky tourist sector jobs when big countries constantly steal things of major wealth like land and resources
Interesting development!
come on dca vleaders u all seeing what i said before about sticking u all nose in international affairs its slowly moving closer to our shores yuh wait and see
ah-well.
Argentinians killing their own economy out of stupidity! All ships should boycott.
Why should all ship boycott? Do you know the history. The British are thieves. being from Dominica you should know about the wicked English!!
“another Caribbean country”? DNO, I know it’s not you, but could you inform your counterparts at Caribbean News Now that Bermuda is not a Caribbean country nor do they regard themselves as such. Last time I checked, they were off the US coast, at the approximate latitude of the state of South Carolina, in the Sargasso Sea, not the Caribbean Sea.
…..thanks much.
How can you make a statement like that when Bermuda is close to the Bahamas, and near to Jacksonville Florida?
If you know you geography you will find the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic ocean meets somewhere between; if you are claiming that Bermuda is not a Caribbean island, then you can also deny Cuba, and Jamaica of that right!
You will also have to eliminate that part of the Gulf of Mexico which extend into the Caribbean sea, and mind you the Caribbean sea knocks even on the sands of the bay of New York, and New Jersey also.
Let that be in Atlntic City New Jersey!
It’s all about our knowledge of geography!
If the Grand Bahama island is part of the Caribbean, so to is Bermuda.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque