In a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron published in the
British media today, Argentine President Christina Fernandez de
Kirchner attacks Britain's claim on the Falklands, known in
Argentina as the Malvinas: One hundred and eighty years ago on
the same date, January 3rd, in a blatant exercise of 19th-
century colonialism, Argentina was forcibly stripped of the
Malvinas Islands, which are situated 14,000km (8700 miles) away
from London. The Argentines on the Islands were expelled by the
Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a
population implantation process similar to that applied to other
territories under colonial rule. Since then, Britain, the
colonial power, has refused to return the territories to the
Argentine Republic, thus preventing it from restoring its
territorial integrity. The Brits have a different version of
that history, reports the Guardian: The FCO also disputes
Fernández's claim that Britain kicked out the island's original
Argentinian inhabitants. It says there was no civi