The British propaganda machine broke its silence to showcase, through MercoPress, the results of its latest soft power maneuver in the South Atlantic: the official reception given by the colonial governor, Colin Martin-Reynolds , to the winners of the controversial "Getting to Know My Malvina Neighbors" contest, among whom is the Argentine student Zaira Chávez .

The information and images —which show Chávez alongside Bianca Núñez (Paraguay) and Sofía Pitetta (Uruguay) at the headquarters of the usurper government— confirm the consummation of a recruitment process that the United Kingdom manages with calculated chronology.

"Soft Power" as a weapon of de-Malvinization

Since 2019, Agenda Malvinas has consistently denounced this competition as not an academic exchange, but rather a political marketing exercise. The United Kingdom doesn't invite just any student; it meticulously selects young people with social media influence to act as cultural "Trojan horses."

Institutional apathy: the worst kind of silence

The most alarming aspect of this news, which broke on Monday, is the lack of a sovereign response . Unlike in previous years, when the Argentine Foreign Ministry expressed some form of rejection of these provocations, the current national government and university authorities (including the CIN and the National University of Rosario, where the Argentine student is from) have maintained a passivity that borders on complicity by omission.

This official silence allows an usurping power to prospect and recruit student cadres in our own cloisters, later using them as trophies of symbolic war on international portals.

The Malvina Islands have no occupying "neighbors"

It is clear that sovereignty is not defended only in international forums, but also by preventing the conscience of our present and future generations from being colonized by an "all-inclusive" trip.

The smile of an Argentine student next to the colonial governor is the image of a symbolic defeat that we cannot accept. The Malvina Islands are usurped Argentine territory, and every act that seeks to normalize the occupation under the guise of "good neighborliness" must be denounced with the firmness that the memory of our heroes demands.