vineri, 10 octombrie 2025

About Argentina and Falkland islands

 I just heard that Argentina's president Milei is opening again the Falkland island dispute.

Few years ago I read a book which collected the writings of Romanian Julius Popper who explored Patagonia for  Argentina's government:

Tara de Foc, Iuliu Popper

Deceived by government officials who skimmed expedition budget in Buenos Aires, low on supplies, with only 12 loyal Croat emigrants he held ground to lawless gold diggers who were taking over the Tiers del Fuego region and attacked the locals.

From wilderness he wrote back to Buenos Aires a business plan that could develop Tiers del Fuego:

"British Falkland islands have ports that repair shops who cross the Horn or Magellan straight. British government mandates that all the ships should perform an inspection before and after crossing the straight "

"Despite having lower quality soil as in Tiers de Fuego, Falkland islands have many sheep herds and this brings big revenues. Tiera del Fuego doesn't have any"

I don't know how British empire succeed to make any barren stretch of land profitable and former Spanish  colonies didn't.

Maybe the economy was more decentralized in Britain? And more centralized in Spanish empire?

You could extract more wealth being a bureaucrat in Buenos Aires than going in Tiera de Fuego and raising sheep's ?

Anyway Brits earned their right to own the Falkland islands.

Argentina must fix their internal problems.

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