Malouines: 2 avril-14 juin 1982

En pleine tension avec le Royaume-Uni, Cristina Kirchner veut commémorer ce lundi 2 avril à Ushuaia le trentième anniversaire de la guerre des Malouines (2 avril-14 juin 1982).

Cristina Kirchner doit prononcer un discours devant des anciens combattants et inaugurer une flamme éternelle et un monument aux 649 soldats morts pendant le conflit, dans lequel ont péri également 255 Britanniques.


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On April 2nd 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. The war Britain fought to recover them still colours domestic politics
WHEN Adrian Mole, a fictional teenage diarist of the early 1980s, tells his father that the Falkland Islands have been invaded, Mr Mole shoots out of bed. He “thought the Falklands lay off the coast of Scotland”. That Britain still had sovereignty over a clutch of islands in the South Atlantic did, indeed, seem odd. Sending a naval task force 8,000 miles to fight for a thinly inhabited imperial relic seemed odder still. In some ways the conflict has come to seem even stranger since 1982. Yet for all its eccentricity, the Falklands campaign still shapes the politics of Britain.Among historians, the main debates about the war’s legacy concern Mrs Thatcher and her Conservative government. Could she have survived as prime minister had the Falklands not been retaken? (In her memoirs, she says not.) Would the Tories have won the 1983 election had Argentina never invaded? (Probably.) But the conflict also changed attitudes to foreign policy and war itself.