BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – [1] Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands, which remain in British hands after the 1982 war between the two countries, is “inalienable,” President Cristina Kirchner said Wednesday.
The sovereign claim to the Malvinas Islands is inalienable,” she said in a speech marking the 26th anniversary of Argentina’s ill-fated invasion of the islands, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off shore.
The April 2, 1982 invasion prompted then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to deploy naval forces to retake the Falklands, known as the Malvinas in Spanish.
There’s two reasons for this coming up just now;
1: Kirchner needs the diversion from her problems at home
2: She knows the Brits are not likley to put up the fuss they did last time. Brown is no Thatcher, and England is no longer England.