Official history is usually written by those with the resources to disseminate it, but historical truth is often much more persistent . This January 2026, the National University of Mar del Plata, under the leadership of its rector Mónica Biasone; has decided to repeat an act that various sectors of ex-combatants and relatives of the fallen consider an affront: the nomination of veteran Julio Aro and British soldier Geoffrey Cardozo for the Nobel Peace Prize.

What the university presents as a "message of unity and future" is, for those who know the inner workings of the Malvinas cause, a flimsy media construction that seeks to legitimize a flagrant violation of International Humanitarian Law .

The myth of the "Humanitarian Gravedigger"

The fabricated story claims that Cardozo , out of "humanity," gave Aro key information to identify the soldiers buried in the Darwin Cemetery. However, the reality is much grimer. Geoffrey Cardozo was not a humanitarian; he was the officer appointed by Margaret Thatcher in 1982 to carry out a unilateral mission: to exhume the bodies of Argentine soldiers scattered across the battlefields and pile them up in a secluded spot in Darwin.

This action, carried out without the consent of the Argentine State and in violation of the Geneva Conventions , constituted a desecration intended to conceal the identity of Argentine heroes . As denounced by relatives like Norma Gómez —sister of fallen soldier Eduardo Gómez— Cardozo's account of respect for the bodies is a fabrication . Red Cross reports revealed that many soldiers, far from receiving a proper burial in coffins, were buried in plastic bags .

The usurpation of other people's work

Aro and Cardozo's nomination deliberately omits the true timeline of the identifications . Long before the duo's media appearance, the CECIM La Plata had already requested the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) to begin these tasks in 1987. It was the families from Chaco and the Argentine government's efforts in 2012 with the Red Cross that paved the legal and scientific path .

The Humanitarian Project Plan was not born from a chance meeting in London, but from a decades-long legal struggle that the British only accepted after the signing of the disastrous Foradori-Duncan agreement in 2016, which granted concessions of sovereignty in exchange for allowing a basic human right: the identity of the dead.

Conflicting interests and the Nobel Prize fund

It is alarming that UNMDP persists in this course of action . Internal sources at the university indicate that personal and financial interests lie behind this institutional perseverance. The lure of the million-dollar prize appears to be the driving force behind a close circle connected to university authorities .

Meanwhile, Julio Aro 's "No Me Olvides" Foundation is reportedly receiving funding from entities such as the Malvina Islands Association and the Franco-British Sillery Foundation, chaired by Cardozo himself. These connections reveal a network of British interests exploiting the sensitivity of the humanitarian cause to undermine Argentina's sovereignty claim .

An affront to sovereignty

Awarding Cardozo is rewarding the perpetrator of a unilateral action that condemned hundreds of Argentine families to decades of uncertainty. It is endorsing the narrative of the man who "cleaned" the battlefields for the convenience of the island landowners.

True peace is not built on ignoring international law or profiting from the suffering of the mothers of the Malvinas War. The memory of the 649 heroes demands truth, not a press campaign financed by the occupying power.