The recently elected president of Chile, the Magellanic Gabriel Boric ; In 2013, he expressed the Argentine belonging to the Malvinas, when, correcting a Twitter user who was celebrating having gone to the islands but calling them Malvinas, he told him , “Old Malvinas, Malvinas Argentinas.” Gabriel Boric, born in the city of Punta Arenas, Magallanes, on April 11, 1986, who currently serves as National Deputy representing the Magallanes Region and Chilean Antarctica, will assume the presidency of his country next March 11, having to analyze in his government the controversy over the maritime limits shared with Argentina in the waters of the South Atlantic.

Both countries delimit as their own the same sector of the continental shelf, of more than 5,000 km2, for which the presidential administration of Sebastián Piñera will present its work, on the extension of its platform and before the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf of the UN next month.