Another teacher, Juan Nandez, adds: "She's always talking about the Malvinas. It's a historical thing. Whether they are British or Argentine, there's never going to be any advantage for the working classes. Nonetheless, her claim is right. The Malvinas are Argentine.
It is true that the huge wealth being generated just a few hundred miles away could provide the shot-in-the-arm much needed by the ailing Argentine economy. But, as the lyrics in La Murga's song April 2nd say, "pride and honour are everything".
Argentina rebuffed over Falklands. The Falklands War: Timeline. Argentine government. Falkland Islands government. President Fernandez has been accused of using the Falklands dispute to distract attention from domestic problems. La Murga's song, April 2, is about the day that Argentine forces invaded the Falklands.
Studying ancient maps of the islands reveals a complicated history. Buenos Aires teachers including Cristina Lavagna have threatened to strike for a full week next Monday. And the Argentine economy is in trouble again today. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Published 3 January The people expelled were an illegal Argentine military garrison, who had arrived three months earlier. The civilian population in the Islands, who had sought permission from Britain to live there, were invited to stay. All but two of them, with their partners, did so. We are not an implanted population. Our community has been formed through voluntary immigration and settlement over the course of nearly two hundred years.
We are a diverse society, with people from around the world having made the Islands their home. We are no more an implanted population than are the various populations of South America whose ancestors arrived as immigrants from Europe — we arrived here as part of the same process and pattern of migration. The UN Charter enshrines the right of all people to determine their own future, a principle known as self-determination.
It is in exercising this right that we have chosen to retain our links with the UK. This fundamental right is being ignored by the Argentine Government, who are denying our right to exist as a people, and denying our right to live peacefully in our home. We are not a colony of the United Kingdom; we are a British Overseas Territory by choice, which is something entirely different. We are not governed by Britain: we are entirely self-governing, except for defence and foreign affairs.
We democratically elect our Legislative Assembly Members; they are chosen by the people of the Falkland Islands to represent them and to determine and administer our own policies and legislation.
We are economically self-sufficient, except for the cost of defence — for which there would be no need were it not for the claim made by an aggressive neighbour. The newly independent Argentina arrived on the scene in and promptly laid claim to the Falklands, arguing that it had inherited the islands from the Spanish crown earlier that century.
British troops returned to the Falklands in , expelling its Argentinian officials and reasserting the U. Backed by the United States , which had previously clashed with Argentina over whaling and seal hunting in the area, Britain established the Falklands as an official colony.
The South American nation has asserted its own sovereignty over the islands, which Argentinians call Las Malvinas , ever since. Two weeks later, on April 2, Argentinian forces moved in at Leith Harbor in South Georgia, overwhelming key British outposts without inflicting any casualties.
See the History Press for a day-by-day timeline of the ten-week struggle. At the same time, however, both sides acknowledged that the entire South Atlantic was essentially an operational theater of war ; recent research also suggests that the vessel was directly involved in operations threatening the British task force. Public opinion remains divided , with proponents characterizing the sinking as a legitimate act of war and detractors condemning it as a war crime.
Sinking our most potent vessel outside the exclusion zone demonstrated the power that the British had. On May 21, British commandos made an amphibious landing on the islands; after a few weeks of heavy fighting and further casualties, the Argentinians surrendered, bringing the day clash to a close on June In total, Argentinian military personnel, British troops and 3 Falkland Islanders died over the course of the undeclared war.
Three days after Argentina invaded the Falklands, a survey of British citizens watching the events from home found that 88 percent of those polled felt the U. Seventy percent advocated sinking Argentinian ships if necessary, and 41 percent called for the immediate use of government force.
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