The governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom begin negotiations to restore the flight from São Paulo, Brazil, to the Falkland Islands, including a stopover in the province of Córdoba. In addition, it was agreed to resume visits by relatives of those who fell in the 1982 war to the Darwin cemetery.
For the Milei government, these measures “will allow progress in a more ambitious agenda of cooperation in different areas between countries.” That broad and ambitious agenda which describes the Argentine Foreign Ministry, It did not include the defense of Argentine sovereignty in the Malvinas Islands.
The Malvinas Islands Ex-Combatants Center (CECIM) of La Plata, an organization that fights to bring to trial the soldiers responsible for the humiliation and torture suffered during the Malvinas war at the hands of the Argentine Armed Forces, issued a statement this Thursday . In it, they highlighted that, as during Mauricio Macri’s government, the process of identifying the graves of soldiers buried as NN, carried out by the International Red Cross, is being used as a “Trojan horse.” The CECIM assures that the national government of Javier Milei is facilitating the British strategy of using a humanitarian issue to advance in obtaining better conditions in the occupation of the Islands.
Villarruel does not talk about why the war was lost
The decision of the Argentine Armed Forces to occupy the Malvinas Islands in 1982 was not driven by an authentic anti-imperialist struggle.but rather it was a strategy to divert attention from the growing popular discontent towards the dictatorship. This aspect, often omitted by officials who demagogically mention the Malvinas cause, like the vice president, highlights that everyone denies that to recover the islands they must confront imperialism.
On the other hand, Villarruel presents herself as the daughter of a hero of the Malvinas, but it is important to remember that it was the same soldiers, in charge of confronting the English troops to recover the islands, who tortured the true heroes of the Malvinas: the soldiers who gave their lives for a just cause. After the military coup leaders surrendered to the English troops, the conscripts began to recount the humiliations they suffered at the hands of officers and non-commissioned officers. The genocidal dictatorship replicated on the islands the methods used on the continent: torture and confinement as a method of discipline.
The cowardly surrender of the military before the English troops in the Malvinas was one of the factors that contributed to the fall of the dictatorship in Argentina, although it was not the only one.
The defeat in the Malvinas led the ruling class and its political representatives to promote what was called “desmalvinización”. The objective was to establish the idea that imperialism could not be defeated and open the way to policies of greater submission and surrender of national heritage to imperialism.
Throughout more than four decades of constitutional governments, the political parties that administered the national State have shown their submission to imperialist capital.
This can be traced in the constant concessions in the agreements made by the governments of Raúl Alfonsín and Carlos Menem to imperialism, however, no government could be left out of the formal claim to the sovereignty of Malvinas. Kirchnerism, who discursively took up the cause the most, did not alter the diplomatic level and did not affect the economic interests of the United Kingdom government.
While the multiple resolutions at the UN They have not implied any change in that policy of subordinating Argentina, demonstrating the formality of these supranational institutions when it comes to affecting the interests of the powers.
The recovery of the Malvinas is a task that the workers and popular sectors have to take into their hands. This fight has to be directed at the expropriation of the large industrial and financial multinationals that plunder the wealth of our country and all of Latin America.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
