"
The Invincible Armada broke its teeth there, Napoleon did not succeed in undermining its power, Hitler did not dare to declare war on it... Argentina did not hesitate to brave Great Britain
”.
The day after April 2, 1982, surprise reigned in the press rooms as well as in the office of the British Prime Minister then occupied by Margaret Thatcher.
The day before, the government of Buenos Aires officially confirmed that its armed forces had landed on the Falkland Islands - Malvinas for the Argentines, Falkland for the British - in order to "reintegrate them into the national heritage".
A windswept but coveted archipelago
The international community did not really take seriously what then looked like “
the beginning of a fictitious war ”, as the journalist from
Figaro
, specialist in Latin America, Irène Jarry
, analyzed it a year later .
It therefore seems inconceivable that Argentina and the United Kingdom "
are struggling for a handful of islets beaten by the southern winds
", for the most part...
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