Malvinas is a place out of place: a town in the English countryside in the south of the world. I traveled to film a documentary a few years ago; The first shock is to see a monument in memory of the “arrival of the invader.” The Kelpers hate us, of course, they hate us and fear us: they have coasters with the map of South America without Argentina. On this side, it is difficult for us to imagine that the war was lost, and produced no effects.
We are worse after Galtieri than before him.
In the sixties and seventies the exchange between the continent and the islands was fluid: there were Argentine Post offices, flights arrived and high school students could obtain scholarships from both sides. All that disappeared. After the war,
England realized that the Falklands were there,
began to subsidize them and considered them part of a strategic area.
Among the events last Tuesday, a teacher from Secondary School Number 4 of Verónica, Buenos Aires district of Punta Indio, was booed while giving her speech. According to those present, the woman politicized her speech and the former combatants present along with their families decided to leave the place.
Soledad Reyes stated that
“the media convinced society that going to war was good and necessary.”
In the midst of the scandal, Reyes said:
“It is a look at the Malvinas war. “I am a History teacher.”
After the controversy and through spokesperson Adorni, the Government announced that it will modify the Education law to
stop indoctrination in schools.
When talking about indoctrination, it is obvious that the country continues to be scalded by the image of Zamba in Paka Paka or the photographs of La Cámpora in primary schools. But
we cannot forget that teaching is indoctrinating,
in any case with a value system similar to ours. Milei worries too much about changing the cultural environment: that cannot be achieved by law. Cultural changes are achieved from the bottom up and not the other way around.
There are 23,596 Malvinas veterans in the country - according to the Ministry of Defense website - among those who are still alive, those who died in combat, those who died as a result of the war and those who earned the right to be considered combatants. through a court ruling. The latter are
the “continental soldiers”
who never reached the islands.
According to Law 23,848, the honorary pension received by former combatants is estimated at three minimum retirements. With the minimum at $171,283,
they charge about $513,849.
There are, even today, dozens of open claims.
An emblematic case of those who are called combatants and were not is that of the actor Carlos Belloso, who has just said that
“we should not give another minute”
to Milei's presidency.
Those who really fought detested Belloso:
”I had a role in a theater of operations for a military objective; I was an anti-aircraft gunner and I defended and guarded the Rio Gallegos airport so that they did not take it. “My claim has to do with the fact that a veteran who is in the theater of operations is on a military objective.”
Their differences with the real combatants were also nutritional. Belloso said that once, due to lack of food,
he had to eat a raw pigeon.
Fighters say food was sometimes missing, but no one ever ate raw food in the war.