The junta's gambit was initially successful, yet the misadventure ultimately failed to breathe new life into the dictatorship floundering under mass human rights violations, social unrest and economic crisis, serving instead to precipitate its demise.
Buenos Aires, Apr 2 (Prensa Latina) Argentina is commemorating the Veteran's Day and the Day of the Fallen in the Malvinas (Falklands) War, 40 years ago, with an extensive program of activities and the commitment to recover its sovereignty over the archipelago.
Few could locate the remote South Atlantic archipelago on a map. But tensions brewed for 150 years over who owned it and still simmer now, 40 years after the war
Whether it is found in children's school books, on bank notes, murals and road signs, tattooed on people's bodies or even as an article in the constitution, Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands…
Argentina's embattled military dictatorship was on its last legs when it sought to secure a lifeline with an invasion of the British Falkland Islands 40 years ago this week.