[Al Jazeera] Argentina...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
has dismissed the head of its navy a month after the disappearance of a submarine with 44 crew members on board.
The sacking of Navy Admiral Marcelo Srur came as relatives of the missing crew demonstrated on Saturday outside the presidential palace in the capital, Buenos Aires.
Carrying posters and banners, they urged authorities to continue the search until the ARA San Juan is found.
"They promised us that they would keep looking for them, exhausting all the resources," Luis Tagliapietra, father of missing crew member Damian Tagliapietra, told news hounds.
"They told me the saying 'a sailor does not leave another sailor behind'. Well, here we are, we're reminding them of that," he added.
Contact was lost with the ARA San Juan on November 15, shortly after the vessel reported an electrical problem.
Argentina officially ended its rescue mission for the vessel two weeks ago, after a noise, thought to be the submarine imploding, was detected near its last known location.
However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
the Argentina's search for the vessel continues, supported by aircraft and ships from 18 countries, including the United Kingdom, Russia and the United States.