PORT STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) — Falkland Islanders honored Margaret Thatcher with a memorial service Wednesday, while Argentine military veterans burned her picture and a Union Jack flag in Buenos Aires.

The competing visions of Thatcher on the day of her burial in Britain were evident on both sides of the sea that separates South America from the islands that Argentines claim as their “Islas Malvinas.”

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