'Libertad frigate heading home on Wednesday,' Defence Minister

Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli, confirmed this morning that Argentine navy training ship ARA Libertad will sail from Ghana, where it’s been seized since October, this Wednesday to arrive to the Buenos Aires port on January 9.

During a radio interview, the Minister explained that a large crew will be sent to the African country as “there are only 45 sailors on the ship, and though they can sail the Libertad it would demand an enormous effort for such a small crew to make her cross the Atlantic Ocean.”

Likewise, Puricelli remarked that Ghana “cannot disobey the UN’s Tribunal of the Sea order for the immediate release of the ship seized at request of a US-based hedge fund.”

Furthermore, the official remembered that “‘vulture funds’ were seeking by all means to blackmail us as they are professional speculators. They are riffraff.”