The beef in Buenos Aires

摘要

Once again an unpopular Argentine government is making aggressive noises towards the Falkland Islands. In 1982 the country's military dictators gambled that grabbing the islands, a far-flung relic of the British empire, by military invasion would allow them to cling to power on a wave of popular acclaim. Fortunately for the islanders the junta was defeated by Margaret Thatcher's dispatch of a task-force (though it was a far closer-run thing than she would ever acknowledge and cost 650 Argentine and 260 British lives).