A group of some 30 veterans of Argentina’s 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands took over the main offices of the agency administering a health-care program for retirees to demand compensation for their military service. The veterans said the government had refused to pay the “historic compensation” it owes them and blamed it for the recent death of a veteran in the northern province of Chaco. Demonstrators are demanding immediate payment of 250,000 pesos (some $85,000) apiece in response to the government’s announcement in March that it was considering cutting the compensation.Full Story