"The Government of the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands will request the reopening of the National Council on Affairs Related to the Malvinas, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, created by Law 27,558 , in 2020." This was reported by Gustavo Melella's administration this Sunday through an official statement published on the Province's website, following the announcement made by the Secretary of Malvinas of Tierra Fuego, Andrés Dachary , following the speech by President Javier Milei on April 2, where he postulated the principle of self-determination of the population established by the British Empire in the Malvinas Islands . A Tierra del Fuego official announced that he will propose its reactivation at the meeting of the Federal Council of Foreign Relations , to be held on April 21 and 22 in the province of Santiago del Estero.
The truth is that the organization that the Fuegian government wanted to revive was practically stillborn . Not only that, but it was also strongly criticized by most of its members, including Melella and Dachary, for its notable inaction and lack of transparency during its operation from November 2020 to December 2023, when Alberto Fernández left the presidency . Even more so because it didn't even allow external opinions and criticism from its own members— whom the Albertist officials threatened to expel —when some of them made timely warnings about British advances and the Argentine government's negligence.
Furthermore, when in its regulations the National Council assumes functions constitutionally delegated exclusively to the President of the Nation and not to a third-level body . For example: "design and implement State policies aimed at effectively exercising full sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia Islands, the South Sandwich Islands, and the corresponding maritime and island areas."
Confused and disoriented, trapped in the web of Anglophile sovereign surrender that Javier Milei's government has successfully woven for the British, the Tierra del Fuego government, a silent and complicit witness to the surrender that was brewing, is now attempting, too late, to do something that sets it apart from libertarian politics.
As a reporter who is oblivious to the tragedy and lacks the responsibility he bears in this unspeakable act of betrayal of the homeland that materialized this April 2, 43 years after the temporary recovery of the Malvinas Islands, the official from Melella screams in horror and terror from the comfort of his office, while the main argument that Argentina has sustained for almost 70 years, and that the free world has supported, crumbles.
"Literally, what the President did was give away the very objective that the British had been working toward diplomatically for years. It's very difficult to go out into the world to build support when your President commits this act of political suicide in international terms, of attempting to recognize something that doesn't apply to the Malvinas Islands," Dachary said.
"The principle of self-determination is not applicable because the population of the islands was forcibly established, displacing our fellow citizens residing there and their legally constituted authorities. There is no precedent in Argentine democracy or history for anyone who has defected in this way against the main arguments of our sovereign claim," he asserted.
