Their island story

摘要

As in the tango, extravagant advance was followed by swift retreat. In the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the war over the islands that Britain calls the Falk-lands and Argentina the Malvinas, Nestor Kirchner rattled his nationalist sabre. Argentina's president announced that he would pull out of a 1995 agreement with Britain regarding oil and gas exploration, and ban from the mainland energy companies that do business in the Falklands. Then, to Argentines' surprise, Mr Kirchner stayed away without explanation from an April 2nd ceremony in Ushuaia, the capital of Tierra del Fuego, at which veterans marked the day they landed in the islands.