More than 30 years after Argentina’s unsuccessful invasion of the Falkland Islands, a fresh war of words has broken out over the sovereignty of the British territory, a rocky archipelago more than 8,000 miles from London but harboring outsize importance to both countries.
The latest bout of controversy erupted after Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner issued a scathing letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, which also ran as an open note to the British public on Thursday in London’s Guardian newspaper. She demanded negotiations to hand over the islands, insisting Britain was in violation of a 1960 U.N. resolution seeking to “end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.”