Argentina 'plotting Falklands economic blockade'

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64. Great song, thanks!!!!

If there is something that unites the Irish and Argentines is their dislike of the British.

I'm half Irish and spent time in high school in a boarding school in Buenos Aires (Irish nuns, the sisters of Mercy).

Admiral Brown is considered as the founder of the Argentine navy.

The British invade Buenos Aires twice in the first decade of the 19th century, when they were still a Spanish colony (part of the Virreinato del Rio de La Plata). The incapability of the Spanish government to protect the city (the citiziens repelled the British mostly on their own), eventually led to their independence from Spain in 1816.

At which point, Las Islas Malvinas became part of Argentina. The Argentine government sent a small garrison. The British invaded the islands in the mid 19th century and there's an account of the governor of the islands in the National Archives in Buenos Aires. He wrote that he was the last person to leave, but not before he lowered the flag for the final time.

I find it ironic that the former pirates of the sea, who never cared about the indigenous people of the nations they conquered (asked the people of India or of several countries in Africa) are all up in arms about the rights of the population of the islands.

Why don't they admit that what they really want is to exploit the natural resources that are found in the waters near the islands. Just as the reason that they took them in the first place was to have a stronghold where they could refuel and restock their ships before crossing the Strait of Magellan.