By Laurence De Mello in BUENOS AIRES
The 2022 discovery of a suspected WWII U-boat in Argentine waters has ignited an intense political debate within the closed corridors of the Argentine Government, resuscitating embarrassing historical ties between President General Juan Domingo Peron and Nazi Germany.
The German ship was scuttled in the dying days of World War II, according to naval investigators. Wreckage lies around four kilometres off coast of Costa Bonita and Arenas Verdes beaches in Buenos Aires, at a depth of 28 metres.
Researchers from the Eslabón Perdido (Missing Link) team have come across a German Reichsmarine submarine off the coast of Necochea in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires near Arenas Verdes and Costa Bonita, it was reported Tuesday.