Penn met Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,
in Buenos Aires and said: “It’s necessary that these diplomatic
talks happen between the United Kingdom and Argentina. I think
that the world today is not going to tolerate any kind of
ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology.” * * *
This is not a cause of leftist flamboyance nor significantly a
centuries-old literary dispute. But rather a modern one, that is
perhaps unveiled most legitimately through the raconteurism of
Patagonian fishermen. One perhaps more analogous to South Africa
than a reparation discussion in South Carolina. As a result, we
must look to the mutual recognition of this illusive paradigm by
both countries, when in the 1970s, the United Kingdom and
Argentina were indeed involved in open-minded diplomatic
negotiations for claims on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands. It was
not until the US and the UK supported the overthrow of Salvador
Allende in Chile and an oppressive military leadership in
Argentina had sought to