Argentina's actions come clear
I never really understood why Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands until I read one sentence in this longish article by
Yahoo/AFP:
Argentina determined to get Britain's Falklands 25 years after war
Argentina clung to its claim of sovereignty over Britain's Falkland Islands Monday as the two countries marked the 25th anniversary of their war over the small Atlantic islands.
Vice President Daniel Scioli reaffirmed the government's goal of winning control of the Falklands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas, in a speech before war veterans in Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city.
"The war has not changed the reality: the Malvinas are Argentine, they have always been and they always will be," Scioli said in the capital of Tierra del Fuego province, which would oversee the Malvinas.
"We will recover what is ours," he said at the main ceremony marking the anniversary, attended by hundreds of people. Scioli also urged Britain to sit down for negotiations on the islands.
Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana said Argentina would continue pressing its case before international bodies.
"We will do so firmly," Taiana said in the southern city of Rio Grande, where thousands of people attended a vigil honoring fallen Argentine soldiers.
The one sentence comes a bit later in the article:
As much as 60 billion barrels of crude lie in ocean-bed structures around the archipelago, which has been British since 1833.
Emphasis mine -- I can see why Argentina is lusting after this bit of British Territory. It's not patriotism, it's geld-lust.
Posted by DaveH at April 3, 2007 4:54 PM