Mercosur backs Argentina days after Islanders' UN appeal for self-determination

Within the span of a week, the two opposing positions in the Falklands dispute were laid out clearly in two separate arenas: South American governments' backing for Argentina's sovereignty claim, and the defense of self-determination that two representatives of the Islanders took to the United Nations.

Neither pronouncement was a reply to the other, but together they illustrate the distance between two hard-to-reconcile logics. ...