![]() Their objective? To capture the capital, Stanley. “About 100 Argentinian marines landed … on the Falklands. Dan and Peter Snow describe what happened in ‘20th Century Battlefields’: The attack came with surprise and overwhelming force. Troops were sent in to support them.Īrgentinian sovereignty had been established just like that. When the workers arrived, they were instructed to raise the Argentinian flag, thus laying claim to the territory for Galtieri. A map showing the British route first to Ascension island and then to both South Georgia and the FalklandsĬonstantino Davidoff, an Argentine businessman, had agreed with a Scottish company, Christian Salvesen, to put workers on the island to remove scrap metal left behind from the days of whaling in the region. Seeking to establish a precedent, Galtieri first sent his forces to take another British colony: South Georgia, also in the South Atlantic. ![]() The invasion, though, would not occur straight away. He settled on the Malvinas, otherwise known as the Falklands. What he needed was a good war centred around something that fired Argentinian pride. Things did not go according to plan, and by April 1982 Galtieri was beset by problems – a restless and angry populace struggling in an economy that was suffering 600 percent inflation.īut if Galtieri could unite his people around a common cause, perhaps he could increase his popularity and hang onto power. The Guardian also revealed how Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, advised the junta to eliminate their opponents quickly before human rights protests could gain momentum. ![]() According to the Guardian, one policy of the junta was to spare pregnant women until they had given birth before then killing them and giving their babies to a military family. A 1976 coup d’etet had seen President Isabel Peron replaced by a military junta (dictatorship) and a man named Leopoldo Galtieri ended up as President at the end of 1981.Ī number of right-wing coups had occurred in the Americas during the 1970s and this one contained the usual ingredients: The disappearance, arrest, torture and murder of thousands of leftists (or even suspected leftists). ![]() But in the late 70s and early 80s, events in Argentina were in political flux. ![]()
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