The story has so much resonance, says Carlos De Angelis, a sociologist at the University of Buenos Aires, because Argentina’s borders have remained relatively unchanged since independence. The Falkland Islands’s British rule is perhaps the most significant foreign intervention in the nation’s 200-year history. This framework is something that all Argentines are taught in school and is often repeated by politicians, especially the former president and current vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of the Peronist party. In a typical symbolic move, Peronist politicians last month proposed renaming Rivadavia Avenue, one of Buenos Aires’ main thoroughfares, to “Argentine Malvina Avenue”. They claimed the move was a tribute to the 649 Argentine soldiers who lost their lives during the Falklands conflict and an even greater number of veterans who subsequently committed suicide. On the anniversary Saturday, President Alberto Fernández led a ceremony with veterans and families of the dead at the recently opened Malvinas Museum in the Argentine capital. “The Malvinas are from Argentina and also from Latin America,” he said. The Falklands can also be used in Argentina to attack opponents. Last year, opposition politician Patricia Bullrich, who’s minister under Mauricio Macri’s center-right presidency from 2015-2019, who had downplayed the Falklands claim, made the mistake of joking about the islands, urging Buenos Aires to use them for to Get Pfizer Covid Vaccines. He was forced to apologize after a national upheaval. “The school puts a lot of emphasis on 1833. It is a watershed. “The islands are an emotion, an idea that unites all Argentines,” said Juan Bautista, a 24-year-old international relations student at the Catholic University of Cordoba. He also draws parallels between Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and Galtieri’s decision to invade the Falklands in 1982: “In both cases, an authoritarian government has sought to regain itself through a nationalist military adventure.”
