Federico Lorenz, an Argentine historian, visits the Falkland Islands - the Malvinas - and refers to them as '[m]y own land, in a foreign country'. It's his way of affirming Argentina's claim to sovereignty over them. The war of 1982 Lorenz characterizes so:
The contradiction was strong: the bloodiest regime in my history had... decided to regain a lost land, to be the leader of a just cause.The cause is just, for him, because 'Argentina, a young country, was robbed [of the Malvinas] by an old Empire, Great Britain, in 1833'. But Lorenz doesn't address the normative question of whether, so far as justice in these matters is concerned, an old title to sovereignty over a piece of land - in this case a title more than a century and a half old - should count for more than the wishes of the living inhabitants of that piece of land. The clash of the two considerations surfaces in the article with this question of his:
What's it like to be in a part of your country in which nobody speaks your language...?But the normative issue is sidestepped.
