Argentine President Cristina de Kerchner lays claim to The Falkland Islands

President Cristina de Kerchner is making more fuss over the sovereignty of the Falklands Islands or Isla Malvinas as the Argentinians would call them. Unfortunately why is she doing this? Because her own bad policies have many Argentinians unhappy and many want her out of office. So a good way of deflecting her unpopularity is to reignite the claim of The Falkland Islands for Argentina. The United Kingdom will defend the Falkland Islands, even if that means to take military action. Remember the British Armed Forces have had 10 years of heavy fighting in Afghanistan so the British Armed Forces will be no match for the untrained Argentinian Armed Forces. 

The Falklands self-autonomous government, which is backed-up by the British government that involves the security of the British Overseas Territories agreement of military support and protection. So if any other nation decides to invade the British Armed Forces would-be sent without hesitation to recapture the Falklands. 

In a show of how the Falklands shall be managed and ruled the Falklands government has called for a referendum to be held sometime in 2013/14, which if the Falkanders choose to remain self-autonomous but under the British Overseas Territories, then it would give an international signal that Argentina doesn't have a right of claim to the Falkland Islands. 

Let's have a look at the style of leadership and policies Argentine President Cristina de Kerchner has done for Argentina: 

• Both Cristina and her late husband Nestor (later becoming part of the Front for Victory) are from the political party of Justicialist formed by Juan and Eva Peron in 1947. 

• Therefore root policies are socialist political policies and socialist ideologies of governance. 

• While her late husband did some extraordinary feats during his Presidency like paying-off Argentine's debt to the IMF (International Monetary Fund) after the disastrous pegging of the Argentine Peso to the US dollar, which left many Argentine's from all sectors of society losing their deposits and savings to the Argentine banking system, he did in fact turn Argentina around.

• While Nestor didn't initially go down the road of nationalisation of industry and restricting private enterprise both domestic and foreign he did start to distance politics from private enterprise in order to hold private businesses accountable to their customers, environment and paying for taxes, especially in the areas of energy, water, and other industries. 

• Cristina is following her husband but instead of cancelling private contracts she has re-nationalised YPF (a Spanish oil company.) She is now demanding banks lend US $3.3billion to businesses by the end of the year. Though an exercise introduced in other countries notably the U.S and the U.K many fear she is heading more and more down the road of nationalisation, similar to her ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. 

• Another policy where she has rattled some feathers rather needlessly is the introduction of higher exportation tax on beef, which has been Argentina's most famous and long lasting export. To have Argentine farmers against you is not something a good President wants. 

Argentina is often looked upon as the most European Latin American country, and has a sense of arrogance, but Argentina had the same GDP than European countries until the pegging of the US dollar debacle and utter stupidity that the then President Carlos Menem adopted.     

But the instability of bad policies have detrimental effects very rapidly in South America and soon foreign private investment starts to wane and become less, and then President Cristina de Kerchner will face a catastrophe like Carlos Menem and President's before him. 

What brought down the military junta that was led by de facto President Leopoldo Galtieri was the invasion of the Falkand's in 1982, and you know what goes round comes round and this is exactly what Cristina de Kerchner will end her days as President of Argentina, which is a shame considering what a beautiful country Argentina is. 

The only thing that is certain to happen is her downfall as President of Argentina and her name falling into the back pages of South American history books.