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#NewWorldReport: Gustavo Petro of #Colombia weighs bombing the narco terror gangs. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#NewWorldReport: Gustavo Petro of #Colombia weighs bombing the narco terror gangs. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-could-restart-bombing-campaigns-against-armed-groups-govt-2024-02-20/


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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelors with my colleague of Professor Avin Ellison.

0:08.0

We're leaving, in the New World Report, we're leaving Rio de Janeiro, very happy this time of year.

0:14.0

However, we are traveling to Buenos Aires.

0:16.0

It's also a happy capital since the election of Javier Malay,

0:20.0

anticipating the visit of Secretary of State Mr. Blinkin within days at the same time

0:24.9

there's news. David Cameron, Lord Cameron, the new foreign minister of the United

0:30.8

Kingdom, stopped off on his way to Rio we can presume in the Malvenus

0:35.8

aka the Falkland Islands. It's many decades since this was a major sore point between

0:41.9

the United Kingdom and Argentina.

0:44.8

There were many deaths, hundreds of deaths in that conflict that lasted just a few short weeks

0:50.1

and yet, Professor, these many years later, it's not raised repeatedly, but I believe

0:57.0

it is still a talking point in Buenos Aires that these are the Malverness and Argentina has not given up its claim.

1:07.0

You tell me there was a witty response from Buenos Aires to the fact of Mr Cameron's visit to the Falklands.

1:14.4

What did Buenos Aires comment?

1:17.1

Well, as you rightfully point out, John, this has long been, even though an issue well

1:22.2

in the past from the you know 1980

1:24.6

three I believe but I'm going to a conflict it is you know still the claim to the islands is enshrined in the Argentine Constitution

1:36.3

and certainly under Perrinist governments the tone of the continuing

1:40.4

British occupation of the islands has been very bitter.

1:43.6

The British of course feel very much the same way.

1:46.7

Going back to Margaret Thatcher, it becomes a symbol of Britain's assertion of its rights

1:51.8

and the protection of the British people and their desire.

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