President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner made the announcement as she said that “the Malvinas are Argentine for ever” and the government “will never yield in our claim”.
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She also ordered that a letter written by an Argentine teacher and volunteer soldier killed in the Falklands War be read to all school pupils in the country. The letter, dated 29 April 1982, was written by Julio Cao, 21, and sent to his class of primary schoolchildren after he arrived at Stanley in the Falklands…
Speaking at an event in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz province, she said: “I know we are going to recover what belongs to us.”
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