![]() support for Britain during the Falklands War was seen as a betrayal, not just in Argentina but across Latin America. policymakers was the extent to which U.S. As Biden explained: “The Argentinians must be disabused of the notion … that the United States is truly neutral in this matter.” Joe Biden who introduced a Senate resolution supporting the British position. As the Reagan administration moved the United States firmly into the British corner during the war, there was genuine bipartisan support. The sharp contrast between what was essentially a fascist regime in Latin America and a European social democracy (albeit one whose social safety net was in the process of being dismantled by Thatcherism) read clearly to many U.S. Under military rule, leftist dissidents were intimidated, tortured, and simply murdered. The military junta that ruled Argentina in the early 1980s was a violent far-right dictatorship, whose leaders and collaborators are still being held accountable in Argentina today. No one can blame the Falkland Islanders for preferring British rule to Argentine rule in 1982. interest to, at the very least, consider the impact our role in the conflict had-and continues to have-on our standing in Latin America. Forty-one years after the fighting stopped, it is in the U.S. For the United States, the Falklands War was a decisive moment in our relationship with Latin America-even if many Americans did not fully realize it at the time. Yet 41 years later, the last major interstate conflict in the Western Hemisphere continues to matter not just to London and Buenos Aires but to Washington as well. Remembered as a triumph in Britain and with resentment in Argentina, the Falklands War is all but forgotten in the United States.
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