Milei hits out at Falklands “tantrums,” says he is “closer” to recovering the islands

MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Friday, July 17th 2026 - 10:13 UTC

The president highlighted what he described as progress by Argentina's Foreign Ministry and a rapprochement with the United States to revive negotiations

Argentina's president, Javier Milei, championed diplomacy as the path for the sovereignty claim over the Falklands and dismissed as “tantrums” certain reactions that followed the national team's victory over England in the World Cup semifinal, without specifying at whom the criticism was aimed.

“While some devote themselves to throwing tantrums worthy of a dim-witted adolescent, we, through diplomacy, are every day closer to recovering the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime space,” the president wrote on Thursday on the social network X. The message did not identify its targets, prompting varied interpretations in the Argentine press, which linked it to both opposition figures and members of his own camp.