Fury in Argentina as book says Falklands are British
An Argentinian government minister has resigned after an encyclopaedia in which the Falkland Islands were called by their British name instead of the Spanish 'Las Malvinas' was sent to hundreds of schools.
Marta Torino quit as an education minister after the error provoked a wave of protests.
Argentine veterans of the 1982 Falklands War with Britain are considering taking legal action if the book is not withdrawn.
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Feelings still run high over the Falklands
But instead of calling the islands Las Malvinas – the name Argentina insists on using despite losing the war – a map depicted the territory as the Falkland Islands and put the initials GB in brackets alongside.
The publishers have printed thousands of clarification slips, but critics want the entire encyclopaedia replaced with a version showing the islands under Argentine sovereignty.
