They arrived at the islands, after winning the competition “Why I would like to meet my neighbours from the Malvina Islands” . Among them, the daughter of the writer, journalist and Kirchnerist politician, Menpo Giardinelli; who participated and won a competition that has been running for 6 years by the Foreign Office - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain - through the British embassies of Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.
Due to the qualities observed by the British, they were chosen to live with the usurpers of the Malvinas for a week: Valentina Brum from Uruguay, Shai Woldarsky from Chile, Elías Arce from Paraguay and Celeste Giardinelli from Argentina . The latter, daughter of the writer, journalist and Kirchnerist politician from Chaco Menpo Giardinelli , who in July 2020 told on Twitter how the former president and vice president of the Nation Cristina Fernández de Kirchner advised her when she confided in her that she liked a Macrista.
On this occasion, the contest, which was awarded with a completely free trip to Malvinas, with a week of living together in the settlers' house, was crowned with a gathering of the four, with the illegitimate governor of the islands, Alison Blake , "at the first reception of 2025 at the Government House , " Mercopress highlights.
It is “one of my favourites…it is always so nice to meet young people who have been chosen through a competition that had a lot of support from the British embassies in countries on the South American continent”; the media highlights the expressions of the imperial official in the implanted colony as literal.
From left to right, Valentina Brum of Uruguay, Shai Woldarsky of Chile, Governor Alison Blake, Elías Arce of Paraguay and Celeste Giardinelli.
During a brief discussion, the students, all university students, expressed different reasons for wanting to visit the Malvinas. Valentina Brum from Uruguay said that as a Biology student she had a special interest in nature and ecosystems, “and from what she had read, the Islands have many geological phenomena that make the Islands a very special place for both fauna and flora.”
Similar concepts were added by the winner of the competition in Argentina, Celeste Giardinelli .
Elías Arce explained that the islands are little known in Paraguay, so he finds it very attractive to learn about the history and people of the Islands, and “not to mention the fauna, it is truly incredible, I love penguins.”
Shai Woldarsky from Chile admitted to having entered the competition several times, “I want to know about the culture, to understand how prominent British culture is on such remote islands. I am very interested in meeting people, I am interested in meeting people from all over the world and so this experience was very enriching in that sense.”
The members of the group, each of whom lives with a British family for the week, were also taken on tours of rural establishments, the “Campo”, as they call it in the Islands, as well as some of the other islands in the archipelago, which total some seven hundred with half a million sheep and their extraordinary display of fauna.
In Puerto Argentino they were able to meet with scientists from environmental groups such as SAERI, the South Atlantic environmental research institute, which has been carrying out internationally recognized work with the presence of many students doing their doctorates or graduation theses, something that Shai describes as “fascinating.”
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