Forty years after Falklands conflict a 'battle for memory' goes on

Falklands War veteran Eduardo Antonio Gonzales, 61, displays a tattoo of the Falkand/Malvinas islands at his home, in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 24, 2022. Picture taken March 24, 2022. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine army veteran Luis Poncetta has traveled twice to the Falkland Islands to pay tribute to comrades who fell in a 74-day conflict with British forces 40 years ago. The divisions, he has found, still linger.

Argentina and Britain have long disputed the sovereignty of the British-run group of islands in the South Atlantic that Argentina knows as the Malvinas. In 1982, that erupted into a short war that claimed the lives of 650 Argentine soldiers and 255 British troops.