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The anniversary of Argentina in 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands led me to dust off some notes on Anglo-Saxon media last year, after the Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean in which the Argentine government unanimous support your claim to Britain over the sovereignty of the islands.

What is striking about these items was showing the strong impact that it had diplomatic action in Argentina. This paper was first Grace Livingstone in The Guardian , "It's time to talk about the Malvinas" . After a historical review that does not ignore the arguments in favor of Argentina's position, she ends up like this (translation):

"(...) This week the 32 Latin American nations unanimously endorsed at the recent Argentina dispute over oil, because most developing nations this is simply a matter of colonialism. Britain may not have formally colonized large of Latin America, but being the dominant world power in the nineteenth century, bankers and traders had a stranglehold on the economies of the new nations. In 1824, George Canning wrote about the independence of Latin America: "English America is free, and if we do not mismanage our affairs, is English."

For a colonial power in the nineteenth century, the Malvinas offer not only opportunities for fishing and whaling, but also a strategic port in the Atlantic, a base from which to eliminate piracy and monitor the trade of rival powers, and a key outpost on the route to the Pacific and the Antarctic.

Today the territory maintains a similar strategic value added bonus and has the oil. Britain and Argentina have been aware for decades of oil deposits around the Falklands, and diplomatic disagreements about oil exploration preceding the 1982 Falklands war.

Is not it time for Britain to stop behaving like a colonial power in the nineteenth century, and heed the call of the United Nations to discuss the issue of sovereignty to Argentina? "

Another article I struck out in Newsweek few days after the former. The author, Molly O 'Toole and its approximate original title "The new war in the Falklands - Why Britain will be defeated this time for Argentina (or should)" . Part of the note may read this site translated into , and something that still comes here: "(...)

Meanwhile, among all actors, the President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is looking the iron lady in this drama. Before this dispute, Kirchner was losing popularity because of economic stagnation. Now he has got really a brave letter-by Britain itself. About 80% of compatriots Kirchner believe that the islands are part of Argentina, so she is pushing hard on the issue. In February [2010] , Argentina responded to the British plans to detain a ship drilling as Buenos Aires was transporting equipment for its new oil explorations and announcing that all vessels that crossed the territorial waters of Argentina had to get permission.

Britain rejected the decree, but Kirchner is gaining allies. Two weeks ago she took a Rio Group meeting of 32 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to achieve unanimous support for its position, including that of Chile, who had secretly supported the United Kingdom dispute in 1982. (...)

Brown's government [Gordon, former British Prime Minister] declared that Britain would keep its land forces, air and sea as a deterrent to protect both its commercial fleet as the Falklands, where it is still installed active force of more than 1,000 British soldiers. But the continued protection afforded to the remote Falklands, not to mention the cost of supply, has been for decades an economic inefficiency factor for the United Kingdom. Back in 1980, the English parliamentary Nicholas Ridley, a conservative minister of state, proposed a plan to hand over ownership of the islands to Argentina, then lease it Territories to Britain, allowing its 3100 inhabitants to remain British but giving Argentina a few of the benefits of sovereignty. Ridley's proposal was booed in the House of Commons. But now, support for spending money on the islands is low among the British, at least compared to 1982. A recent editorial in the Guardian urged the government to reconsider the plan Ridley, arguing that the Falkland Islands can no longer be more "costly nuisance" in the UK, because "the world will insist on the matter."

In truth, the world has come a long way since the last war in Britain over the islands. Democracy has spread throughout Latin America, and many of the traditional tensions between countries of the continent have been relaxed, allowing for greater regional cooperation and economic integration. The potential value to the UK from the Falklands oil fields is obvious at a time when its North Sea reserves are running out . But you can not know how much oil is really there until you start exploring, making this an extremely risky business proposition. Good relations with the emerging trade bloc in Latin America, led by Brazil, may be more valuable in the long term and that Britain would be wise to accept offers of mediation. After all, the growing interdependence of American interests Kirchner has allowed a unified front to achieve its diplomatic war with the United Kingdom, which in turn has ensured a level of legitimacy for the continent, Britain and the rest the world should not-and cannot-continue to ignore. "

could update the information contained in these notes, for example the fact that the current financial situation of Great Britain more encouraging is that a year ago. Or that oil exploration Malvinas not seem to be giving good results. Anyway, I think the most notable item is the relevance given to diplomatic action in Argentina and the views on the desirability for the British to review its opposition to negotiations on sovereignty. Something that probably can not read Argentine Clarín or Nation.


PS: The author of this blog gives me a "naive optimism" on this post. I have not hinted at any time that Mr David Cameron will come with his head down to give us the key to the governance of the Falklands. I do believe that the only way for an eventual recovery of the islands in the future is diplomatic pressure, particularly by strengthening the regional bloc and the solidarity of our neighbors in the claim. Of course, I do not see major changes in the current scenario in the short to medium term, and what interested me here was to show rather more Anglo-Saxon eyes Argentina's position in favor of showing that some local media. So that "naive optimism" that gives me quite relative. Especially when coming from someone who posts an article in response that (besides some signs right) states raise "a policy independent of government working facilitate workers dispute the political and military conflict ". I apologize, but I do not smoke that.