The row over the Falklands has been all over the news here, and there are anti-British protests in the main square. The banners pictured say: "The Falklands are and will be Argentinian. The blood spilled will never be negotiated."
But the Argentinians I've spoken to tend to be quite equivocal about the 1982 invasion, seeing it as a desperate gamble by a dictator, that backfired.
Seeing the economic difficulties the country is suffering now, I can understand some of their resentment in seeing a far-flung former imperial power drilling for oil on their doorstep.
My Spanish teacher produced a map of Argentina in class and it had Las Malvinas, as they call them, clearly marked. A world map on the wall had (ARG) next to the islands, for added emphasis.
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