In an unprecedented event, the Government of Javier Milei removed from the Casa Rosada the Argentine flag that flew in September 1966 in the Malvinas as a result of the landing in Puerto Argentino; from a state-owned company plane, which was diverted by a group of 18 young militants who carried out an act of vindication of sovereignty, called Operation Condor .
That day, September 28, 1966, at the horse racing track where the Aerolíneas Argentinas Douglas DC-4 landed; in addition to reading a proclamation, the young people left a note to the colonial government and displayed seven 2.5 x 1.5 meter flags .
Operation Condor, as it was called, was led by Dardo Cabo, a member of the nationalist Peronist Movement Nueva Argentina (MNA), and conceived by a journalist and activist, María Cristina Verrier.
A total of seven flags were displayed, which had been made by Maria Cristina Verrier 's mother. Five were hung from the wire fence, the sixth was raised from the fuselage of the plane, and the seventh was hoisted on a mast that was improvised on the spot.
48 years after the events, the flags became relevant again when, on April 2, 2014, the "Condors" gave one of them to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner . The flag was later placed in a display case in the galleries of the Malvinas Argentinas patio of the Casa Rosada.
Despite the historical and political significance that this and the other six flags represent in terms of sovereignty, at noon on Tuesday, February 25, it became public knowledge that the national symbol located at the headquarters of the national government has been removed without any official information stating the reason why the current presidential administration made this decision and where it is currently located.
