Argentina's president stokes up claim to the Falklands

[WestVirginiaRebel]

UK Telegraph:

Argentina's president is stoking up patriotic sentiment over the Falklands by ordering that each school have a classroom named after a soldier killed in the conflict with Britain.


President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner made the announcement as she said that "the Malvinas are Argentine for ever" and the government "will never yield in our claim".

She also ordered that a letter written by an Argentine teacher and volunteer soldier killed in the Falklands War be read to all school pupils in the country. The letter, dated 29 April 1982, was written by Julio Cao, 21, and sent to his class of primary schoolchildren after he arrived at Stanley in the Falklands.

Cao, who was killed in action weeks later shortly before Argentina was defeated by a British Task Force, used the letter to apologise for having left in haste, but added: "I find myself accomplishing my soldier's duty of defending our flag."

President Kirchner was speaking at an event to mark the 29th anniversary of the invasion of the Falklands at the weekend. The country's presidential election is due in October and the decrees will be seen as evidence that President Kirchner will use patriotic sentiment over the Falklands to help to win votes.

Speaking at an event in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz province, she said: "I know we are going to recover what belongs to us."
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Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War. Is Argentina looking to start something?

[AceRimmer]

What's the Argentinian economy look like?(that's the real reason the junta in charge went after the Falklands then) I know the Royal Navy is a shadow of what it was 30 years ago, aside from their subs. And the Brits can't depend on the Jellyfish-in-Chief like Thatcher could depend on Ronaldus Magnus for help if the Argentines do get frisky.