Argentina 'plotting Falklands economic blockade' [View all]
British diplomats have accused Argentina of plotting an economic blockade of the Falkland Islands amid fears Buenos Aires is attempting to block all flights from Chile to the islands.
The government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has publicly threatened to cut the weekly route between Punta Arenas and Port Stanley, the islands' only air link with South America and its main link with the outside world.
British officials believe the service will disappear in an attempt by Argentina to make the Falklands too expensive for Britain to maintain.
"If the LAN Chile flight is cancelled it would be pretty difficult to resist the already credible thesis that there is an economic blockade of the civilian population of the Falklands," a senior British diplomat in the region said on Wednesday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/01/argentina-falklands-economic-blockade
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