The escalating Anglo-Chilean provocations in the South Atlantic have crossed a point of no return that goes far beyond the usual logistical handover in Punta Arenas. The impunity with which the British patrol vessel HMS Medway operates—which we denounced after its stop in Chile to resupply—now carries an extremely serious institutional and military dimension: the United Kingdom's unilateral breach of post-war communication protocols , an act that undermines more than three decades of diplomacy and returns the bilateral relationship to the brink of belligerency prior to 1990.

According to an investigation published by the newspaperÁmbito Financiero , the Argentine Navy detected the British warship sailing from the Malvina Islands towards the Strait of Magellan. The patrol boat entered Argentine waters near Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego without issuing any prior communication to Argentine military authorities .

Here, an urgent political correction is needed regarding the interpretation of certain chroniclers: the ship did not enter "Argentine jurisdiction" only upon approaching the mainland. The Malvina Islands and their surrounding maritime areas are and always will be under Argentine jurisdiction , meaning that HMS Medway was and is in national waters from the very moment it cast off. The extremely serious issue is that it violated the continental and internal maritime space without giving the mandatory post-war notice.

What broke London? The Madrid Agreements I and II

To measure the magnitude of the British affront, it is imperative to remember what the Madrid Treaties, which legally ended the 1982 conflict, established:

By ordering the HMS Medway to transit through waters bordering the Argentine continental and insular area without prior notice - according to what was published by Ámbito - neither the British Brigadier Charlie Harmer (commander in the islands) nor the Lieutenant Commander Lucía Ramsay (commander of the patrol boat) used the mandatory channels established in 1990. They unilaterally shattered the Madrid II Treaty.

National monitoring in the face of complicit silence

The British omission was not an administrative oversight; it was an act of arrogance and geopolitical probing of the administration of Javier Milei , whose foreign ministry is now mired in a dangerous silence for fear of straining its docile alignment with the West.

Despite the pirate information blackout, electronic sensors in the Southern Naval Area, under the command of Rear Admiral Guillermo Prada, detected the HMS Medway 's retreat. A Beechcraft B-200M "Cormorant" aircraft from the Argentine Naval Aviation took off to record and operationally monitor the vessel's movements using electro-optical technology. In a stark paradox of current asymmetry, the equipment used to track the invader came from cooperation with the United States, London's main ally in NATO.

From simulation to active hostility

This breakdown of Madrid II provides a framework of absolute coherence to everything we have been denouncing from Agenda Malvinas :

1.    Chile is not a spectator: By receiving HMS Medway in Punta Arenas on Sunday, July 5, immediately after this illegal incursion, the Chilean Navy is not attending to a vessel on a "technical stop"; it is providing logistics and support to a pirate who has just violated the peace agreements signed with Argentina.

2.    The danger of regression: By breaking off communication channels, the United Kingdom destroys the only remaining instrument of mutual trust and sets back security conditions in the South Atlantic to the worst post-war periods.

Faced with this extremely serious event, the Argentine government cannot subordinate national sovereignty or the security of our sea to an agenda of diplomatic submission. The unannounced transit of HMS Medway also demands two strong and immediate protests: one to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and another to the Chilean Foreign Ministry. In the latter case, if the La Moneda Palace in Chile decides to continue harboring those who trample on the region's peace treaties, Argentina must formally denounce the fact that the Santiago-London axis has decided to resume operating under the same hostile terms as in 1982.

Geography doesn't lie, nor do radars: the English enemy is advancing and the trans-Andean neighbor is opening the doors for him.