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For how long have the Argentinians claimed the Falklands? Does this claim predate the 1970s/1980s?

Hello, Argentina, I have 25 years, just like you.

I grew up listening to every year, at school, the ephemeris on "The Day the veterans and the fallen in combat in the Falklands War."

The Malvinas are Argentine because ...:

1 - Geographic Question: are under the continental shelf Argentina, less than three nautical miles of Cape Horn (1,080 km exactly), and surrounded by the sea that bears his name, the Argentine Sea.

2 - historical question: scientific evidence has been found (arrowhead in stone, skins, leftover utencillos) inhabitants of time before the Spanish conquest. The researchers argue that the islands were inhabited by Aborigines that came from sampling the Patagonian region of country, which came in very rudimentary boats (10 to 8000 years or so).

To sum up, and go around the bush, and Dudum Bulls Caetera Inter Quidem If signed by Alexander VI in 1493, which sold to Spain the territory one hundred leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, ratified by the will of Queen Isabel de Castilla, in his tenth clause tenth. . But the English corsairs-pirates, watching for any ship or galleon that sailed the waters of the Atlantic, saw the land but, in principle, mistook mainland, belonging to Spain.

Subsequently, a series of events sucitaron: After the war of succession between England and Spain by the Treaty of Ultrech signed in 1713, the British agreed to restore the Catholic King Philip V, the disputed territories. Subsequently, a new attempt usurpation, this time by Louis Antoine de Bougainville proposed to the King of France Louis XV in 1764, organizing an expedition to the islands, there built a strong, reaching the ears of Spain, the evicted immediately. A real back and forth between Spain, England and to a lesser extent, France, to which of these ruled and imposed their authority over these lands. On January 23, 1765, another English, Commodore Byron, landed in the bay and built a fort in Trinidad. Aware of this usurpation Spain expelled the British, under the agreements called Nootka Convention, destroying the fort, beginning a bitter negotiations between the two nations.

In 1811 the Falklands were evacuated by the Spanish, leaving deserted until 1820, being only visited by whalers of different nationalities.

In 1820 the government of Buenos Aires sent a frigate to take ownership and assert their rights in the Falklands as a succession of Spain, making use of the natural resources of the archipelago. Creation of the Political and Military Command of the Falkland Islands based in East Falkland.

On January 2, 1833 came the British warship HMS Clio, making known to the Argentine military who came to "reclaim and reaffirm" their rights over the islands, which belonged to the English crown. No more than astonishment, the militia of "United Provinces of South America" ​​(the name our country before having the first constitution in 1853) withdrew.

Why they did? It is believed that by that time, the Buenos Aires caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, remained "carnal relations" with the English government, and not lose his "friendship", say, the gift (this does not tell anyone, I think so ,).

Entered the twentieth century, claims Argentine diplomats succeeded to the British government and to the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Argentina never allowed to lapse their sovereign rights.

The Argentine claim was recognized as legitimate by international agencies. The UN accepted the colonial nature of the dispute (Resolution 1514) and the validity of Argentina's claims over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich (Resolution 2065), calling on both governments to hold negotiations over the future of the islands. In the same vein issued the OAS (Organization of American States) in the Inter-American Juridical Committee, the Bureau of Non-Aligned Movement and the Rio Treaty (Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance) in the Resolution of April 26, 1982.

All the above does not justify, in the least, the loss of lives of both a country as another. The war was a folly, designed by a military junta that led a state policy unconstitutional and undemocratic, with the idea of wanting to be perpetrated in power at the expense of earning the trust of the people (naive) Argentine victory against a power like it is England and its U.S. partner.

Well, draw your own conclusions and have the answers to questions. The second question, Argentina has its first cry of Freedom with the so-called revolution of May 1810, six years later and after much internal struggle for ideological reasons, been able to declare as an independent nation from Spain on July 9, 1816.