This January 3, 2026, Argentina is just seven years away from the bicentenary of the British dispossession of 1833. And for the first time in its democratic history, the anniversary finds the Nation governed by an administration that admires Margaret Thatcher and validates the "desire" of the occupiers, breaking the national consensus on territorial integrity.

On January 3, 1833, the British frigate HMS Clio arrived in the Malvina Islands to carry out an act of force: the expulsion of the Argentine authorities and part of the population that legitimately resided in the archipelago . That day marked the beginning of the rupture of our nation's territorial integrity, a wound that is 193 years old today and which, far from healing, bleeds with unprecedented institutional severity due to the current national government's stance.

This anniversary is not like the previous ones . In 2026, the country finds itself with a president, Javier Milei, who has publicly expressed his admiration for the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1982 war, Margaret Thatcher —politically responsible for the sinking of the General Belgrano Cruiser— and who has proposed to the British press that sovereignty depends on "when the islanders wish it."

From the expulsion of 1833 to the validation of 2026

The story is clear: in 1833, Great Britain did not find an empty territory, but an organized Argentine community . The expulsion was a colonial act that the UN recognized in 1965 as a situation that does not allow for self-determination, precisely because the current population is the result of that forced displacement.

However, almost two centuries after that dispossession, the official discourse of the Casa Rosada has shifted sides . By advocating for the "self-determination" of the established colony, Milei not only ignores the rights of 47 million Argentinians, but also legitimizes the HMS Clio 's act of force . If the right to decide resides with the occupiers, then the usurpation of 1833 ceases to be an international crime and becomes a fait accompli, accepted by the very state that was attacked .

January 3rd under the shadow of betrayal

While the CECIM La Plata maintains a legal challenge against the President for his statements to The Telegraph , January 3, 2026, is being presented as a date of resistance. From Jujuy to Antarctica, the sovereignty claim now faces an internal enemy: the official de-Malvinization disguised as a "mature trade relationship."

Admiring Thatcher and giving in to the Malvina Islanders' "wish" is, in practice, completing the work the British began 193 years ago . That was a usurpation by force of arms; this is intended as a surrender by decree and through the omission of constitutional duties .

Memory as a defense

193 years after that fateful January, Agenda Malvinas reaffirms that time does not extinguish sovereignty . Argentina will not be a complete nation while a colonial power usurps its territory and plunders its resources.

Today, more than ever, remembering January 3, 1833, is to denounce the policies of 2026. Sovereignty is not negotiated with weapons nor is it subject to the will of those who occupy what belongs to others. Territorial integrity is an inalienable mandate that no administration, however admiring of imperialism it may be, can erase from the conscience of the Argentine people .