An Argentine government website published a communiqué on Wednesday about a meeting between Foreign Minister Diana Mondino and a Red Cross representative where it named the Malvinas Islands as “Falklands/Malvinas.” Mondino said she would find the person responsible for the faux pas and fire them, and implied they were guided by “leftist ideology.”
The topic caused considerable backlash in Argentine social media since, although the UK refers to the territory as the “Falklands Islands,” the South American country strongly contests this name. Calling the islands “Malvinas” is a way of defending Argentina’s sovereignty over the archipelago, currently under British occupation.
The press release, which was promptly removed from the government’s website argentina.gob.ar, spoke of a meeting between Mondino and Gilles Carbonier, the Vice-President of the........