Argentina's new government declared on Sunday that it will continue its claim to the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory 300 miles east of South America's Patagonian coast. Newly elected president, Mauricio Macri has invited the U.K. to start a possible negotiation regarding the disputed islands and other territories.
Despite the fact that Russia’s commercial interests in Latin America have grown over the past decade, the fruits of a free flowing trade between Russia and the region has been overshadowed by the greater need for political allies.
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took the opportunity of the Falklands War anniversary to announce her government would declassify documents concerning the 1982 war with the U.K.
Although Russia has yet to hold any official negotiations regarding the leasing of a dozen supersonic bombers to Argentina, a senior government official has announced that the country would in fact be willing to consider such a deal in the future.
Angry locals, believing the British TV crew and cast insulted their country, attacked the group of cars as they attempted to leave Argentina. The South American nation lost the 1982 Falklands War to the U.K.
