The core of this conflict is that the Argentinian government believes the Falkland Islands (which are known as Islas Malvinas within Argentina) should be a sovereign nation. While the British government believes the people Falkland islands (who were named by the 5th viscount of Falkland) are happy being a British protectorate. The two countries have been at consistent odds with one another since 1833. But after a war in 1982 that ended with the retreat of Argentinian forces and a referendum in 2013 where the residents of the islands voted to remain a british protectorate 1513 to 3. While an agreement seemed to have been reached in 2016, where both countries despite disagreeing on the islands sovereignty agreed to work together on issues of fishing and shipping in the area. The most recent head this centuries old conflict occurred when Argentinian foreign minster Santiago Cafiero, declared that he wanted to “re-open” talks about the archipelagos sovereignty. This claim was met by serious disdain from UK foreign secretary James Cleverly.
The first source from Al-Jazeera, focuses heavily on the British response to the Cafiero’s comments and not neglecting to include direct quotes from Cafiero himself. Instead, the article uses tweets from secretary Cleverly and another UK minister David Rutley. While the article does its due process when describing the history of conflict on the islands, the lack of any Argentinian rebuttal does mean that their government is not painted as having much of leg to stand on.
On the other hand the article from TRT World focuses much more on the reaction from the Argentinian people. However, this article is still not in favor for the Falklands/Malvinas being a sovereign state. The tweets used in this article are from activist Juan Grabois and ex-congresswoman Fernanda Vallejos, both make claims of the sanity and sobriety Carlos Foradori for ever signing the pact. It also makes the claim that the archipelago should not be sovereign but, it in fact has, and continues to be a part of Argentina.
The two sources differ greatly in the side the conflict in which they endorse. Al-Jazeera makes an attempt to be bi-partisan in it’s explanation of the conflict, but without any use of Argentinian sources the article does paint the claim made Calfiero to be at best, unfounded. TRT World takes an even stronger stance in support of the claim that the Falklands always has belonged to the Argentines. For any and all border conflicts it is more important than anything else to provide both sides of the conflict. Without that, the issue becomes too over-simplifed and permanent answers become harder to find.
This ongoing conflict has direct ties to colonialism due to the foreign occupation of the island. In addition the 1982 Falkland war is a direct result of CIA meddling into Argentine government, who helped install violent militaristic dictator Leopaldi Galtieri because of his commitment against communism.
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