A Latam flight from the NATO military base built in the Malvinas Islands (Malvinas) to Punta Arenas (Chile) is scheduled to land today at 4:30 p.m. at Ushuaia International Airport in Malvinas, Argentina .

And although it has a group of 20 Argentine war veterans and relatives of heroes killed in the 1982 war on board, the flight bears the company's infamous attitude of deliberately omitting from its worldwide sales and information website the name that the Fuegians gave it at its inaugural ceremony on November 27, 1995: "Malvinas Argentinas."

It does so by complying with the brash and feudal demands of the British colony that usurped the Malvinas Islands; of attempting to render invisible, banish, and obliterate the solid demands of the Argentine people . A historic and sustained demand since 1833, which has rarely had the support and agreement of the governments in power. A situation that, moreover, has escalated to the National Congress and that simultaneously once again exposes the apathy of the Argentine and Tierra del Fuego authorities in the face of a new attack on national sovereignty.

Today's landing will be the epilogue to a week marked by a dismantling of Tierra del Fuego politics, leaving the governor exposed . Last Saturday the 13th, Gustavo Melella sent a media ultimatum to the company, saying: "If Latam doesn't recognize the name of our airport, then it can say goodbye to Ushuaia." And on Sunday the 14th, he doubled down, announcing that the following day he would send a complaint to the company's top authorities and a request to reinstate the official name of Ushuaia Airport in all of the company's media and information formats .

The governor's words resonated powerfully, but were lost in the void . The airline didn't change its attitude. The flight from Punta Arenas to the Malvinas Islands, with a stopover in Ushuaia, operated normally, and the LATAM website still doesn't list the airport's official name.

As is commonplace these days, Melella "faked dementia." It may have been of his own volition, advised by his entourage led by Karina Castillo , or because he is so tied to the Libertarian Regime that he lost all autonomy.

An attack on sovereignty and memory

LATAM's attitude isn't just a lack of respect for the airport's official name . It's a direct attack on sovereignty, the memory of those who fell in the 1982 war, and the dignity of veterans. It also represents a direct attack on all the generations who, from 1810 to the present, have upheld the Cause so that it may be an emblem of Latin American and global unity against colonialism.

But the grievance doesn't stop there . The airline also discriminates economically against Argentines. A direct flight of less than an hour between Ushuaia and the Malvinas costs 336,000 Argentine pesos, while a ticket from Punta Arenas, with a stopover in Ushuaia, which takes one hour and 40 minutes, is available for 30% less: 221,000 Argentine pesos. This price difference is a clear policy to discourage Argentines from using the flight, preventing them from accessing our own islands.

Conversely, the company's fares are even more obscene and aggressive , given that if any Argentine passenger flies today from Monte Agradable to Ushuaia, they will have to pay 318,150 Argentine pesos. But if their destination is Punta Arenas, 500 kilometers further north, which takes 40 minutes longer to fly, they will only pay 196,945 Argentine pesos.

Two screenshots taken minutes after 9 AM this Saturday the 20th document this:

Business, politics and laziness

While Malvinas veterans are discriminated against, insulted, harassed, and mistreated at Monte Agradable Airport and in the streets, hotels, and bars of Puerto Argentino, LATAM flights are massively exploited by fishing boat crews plundering our natural resources with illegal British licenses. They are exploited by the engineers and professionals preparing to exploit the fabulous "Sea Lion" oil and gas field north of the Malvinas Islands, strengthening the commercial ties between businesspeople from the British colony and companies and investors from Santiago de Chile, with Punta Arenas as its epicenter.

In this context of inaction, the only voice that has elevated the conflict to the status of a "state issue" is that of National Representative Carolina Yutrovic , who, accompanied by 19 parliamentarians, presented a bill to repudiate the company. Her initiative urges the National Executive Branch to take action. A beacon of dignity amid so much apathy. A reminder that defending our sovereignty must be a state policy, not a topic for high-sounding, inconsequential pronouncements .

The arrival of today's flight and its circumstances, with the war veterans on board, tends to be clear evidence that this political generation has given up or capitulated .