(CNN) - The death of Britain’s former prime minister Margaret Thatcher has taken up column inches on front pages around the world.
In keeping with the legacy of the “Iron Lady”, reaction has been split between praise and condemnation, underscoring Thatcher’s global impact — in life and now in death.
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The English language Buenos Aires Herald said Argentina’s government had been silent on the death of Thatcher, who led Britain into the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands, a territory Argentina claims and refers to as Las Malvinas. Thatcher “was held responsible for sinking the ARA General Belgrano light cruiser outside the Maritime Exclusion Zone, killing 323 Argentine sailors,” it said. Relatives of Argentinians killed in the war regretted that Thatcher had died before Argentina could file a lawsuit against her in the International Criminal Court at The Hague, it said.
Argentine news agency Telem said most Argentinians would remember her for the Belgrano incident, while La Nacion said the few politicians who addressed her death also condemned the ship’s sinking.
I’d like to think that in the future there can be more leaders like her.
She opposed ending apartheid in South Africa, she opposed the reunification of east and west Germany. She sat ideal while men starved to death trying to regain independence from England. May she rot in hell. Good riddance.
No you didn’t. You didn’t just call the UK England? Try learning the name of our country first before you mention any of our history that has sweet f**k all to do with you. Northern Ireland can have a referendum if they choose. No one in Britain would think any less of them if they wanted to Unify Ireland, we would respect their wishes.
She opposed Germany reunifying because she said Germany would become more than just another European country. The EU would become dominated by the Germans and the French. Woman had a crystal ball. What is happening just now? She seen them as a threat to the UK. Given she was a women who lived through WW2, you could can forgive her mistrust of them.
She wasn’t the devil, thats why ignornant scumbags like you have to write your own history.