It is not surprising that the ambassador did so in the newspaper founded by Bartolomé Mitre, one of the main - although not the only - members of the Anglophile movement that inoculated the poison of surrender in the origins of our nation-state in the mid-nineteenth century.
According to the ambassador, the signing of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation on February 2, 1825, "became the founding milestone of the most intense link that my country has had with a Latin American nation, and meant in practice the first recognition of the independence of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata by one of the great European powers of the time."
An important clarification: this treaty was signed when General Juan Gregorio de Las Heras governed the province of Buenos Aires, in a context where the Banda Oriental was invaded by the Brazilian Empire, which was governed by the Portuguese crown, one of England's main allies at that time.
It should be noted that this agreement was not the only one, as seven other American nations had to sign similar diplomatic agreements with which England would slowly sink its hook into the heart of the nascent American republics.
The Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation established an imaginary legal and political equality between the United Provinces and England since commercial reciprocity "It obviously favored the English, who had much more to sell than us," as Felipe Pigna states on the El Historiador website.
The ambassador omits that prior to the treaty, the ominous loan was signed with Baring Brothers during the government of Bernardino Rivadavia , on July 1, 1824.
From the Malvinas Agenda we cannot fail to point out that throughout our history this external debt contracted in 1824 with the Baring Brothers loan caused our country to default on payments on seven occasions, Of these, only four were admitted by the official history. A fact that, of course, the ambassador also omits in her note in La Nación.
Needless to say, each of the nascent American republics that signed treaties such as the one claimed by the ambassador were also preceded by loans from Baring Brothers. The recognition of our sovereignty, alluded to by the ambassador, only came from perfidious Albion if financial usury was first allowed in.
It is worth noting that along with the recognition of the treaty and the loan funds (the few pounds that arrived in Buenos Aires, since most of them never left London) there was also pressure from British diplomacy for the United Provinces to cede the territory of the Banda Oriental for the creation of a buffer State, which happened when Governor Manuel Dorrego signed the peace with the Empire of Brazil cornered by internal but fundamentally British pressures, with which the English guaranteed free navigation of the Río de La Plata and Uruguay for the ships of the Queen of the Seas. A fact that Dorrego paid for with his life in the face of the betrayal of his own people and the conspiracy of the friends of His British Majesty for these Pampas.
The ambassador also omits the invasion violence against our Malvinas Islands and the forced expulsion of Governor Luis Vernet, on January 3, 1833.
Needless to say, the English invasions of 1806 and 1807 are not part of the idyllic story that the ambassador wants to sell us. She does not tell us that they came to plunder and kill. Nor does she say a single word about the treasure of Buenos Aires that the English invaders seized in Luján and that they never returned to the United Provinces despite the claims made. In case the ambassador does not know, we provide the following information: Beresford, Popham and their henchmen stole 1,086,000 Spanish ounces of silver in the first invasion of Buenos Aires. At current values, this treasure stolen from the Royal Treasury in 1806 is worth more than all the current reserves of the Argentine Republic.
Nor did he mention the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata with which they attacked the nascent Argentine Confederation, during the government of the strongman of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and which lasted between 1845 and 1850. Where the invading forces went up our Paraná River although they got what they deserved and once again tested the bravery of the Creole weapons in the battles of Vuelta de Obligado and Punta Quebracho.
The ambassador does, however, tell us about the tender story of the bull Tarquino, “the first pedigree bull to enter Argentina,” and then reproaches us for the fact that “today 84% of the cows in Argentina are of British breed.” This is just when the sell-out government of Javier Milei , who claims to be an admirer of the war criminal Margaret Thatcher , is depriving a significant part of the Argentine people of the consumption of meat, milk and yerba, among other things.
Without leaving aside the benefits of Scotch whisky or Welsh cakes, the ambassador takes us through the common places of the vanity fair with which her nation and her culture try to cover up the most horrendous crimes committed in the name of progress, free trade, liberalism and capitalism, mocking the memory of the peoples who, like ours, they have offended with their arrogant policy of English lords and with their attitude of common thieves.
And it is precisely for that reason, because it is in their essence as thieves with British phlegm that the English ambassador, Kirsty Hayes , will never speak of returning the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands to end this crime against humanity that colonialism represents, which mourns the southern seas to the shame of the world and of which the ambassador does not say a word.
Nor does it say anything about how the United Kingdom, which the ambassador represents, installed a NATO military base in Monte Agradable or about the nuclear submarine facilities that are being built in hermetic secrecy in the usurped Georgias, bringing to these latitudes the latent threat of nuclear destruction that not only looms over our beloved country but also over the rest of the sister nations of South America.
Madam Ambassador, from Agenda Malvinas we want to tell you that with friendships like yours, who needs enemies.
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