A Falkland hero is domiciled in the islands and will vote at a special table

The full name of the southernmost province of Argentina, as declared in 1990, is Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands. Among the archipelagos mentioned above are, for example, the Falkland Islands. With this in mind, and considering the country's historic claim against the United Nations for its sovereignty over this archipelago, veteran Osvaldo Hillar found the perfect legal suspension for the registry civil society can designate him as an Argentine citizen. domiciled in the Falkland Islands.

According to the first minute, Hillar said that "it was essentially symbolic". He has been living in Ushuaia since 1984 and this Sunday will be voting for the first time at a specially opened table for him at Rural School No. 6 "Entre Ríos", located 55 kilometers from the fuegian capital.

"The Sandwich Islands, the Falklands, a part of Antarctica … are under our jurisdiction.It is our national territory and Ushuaia, its capital," said Hillar, 55.

"I always had in mind that I had to do something." After his adoption (Law 23.775 which he declared) as a province of Tierra de Fuego, and (in the text), it is indicated that the Falkland Islands belong to this province, they could object, "said Hillar.

The ex-combatant thus managed to settle in the Falkland Islands and registered as a street address he named in honor of his partner, Eduardo Antonio Vallejo, a Cordovan like him with whom he had made his military service in the airborne artillery group 4 of La Calera. with whom he was summoned to the islands on April 23, 1982.

Vallejo died between June 11 and June 12 after being injured by shrapnel from a naval bomb that exploded two feet away from him. As a tribute, Hillar's paper says his address is Eduardo A. Vallejo 103, Puerto Argentino.

Far from wanting to deceive diplomacy from Buenos Aires to the UN, Hillar saw his initiative as an action "to open a few more eyes" because "there are things to do to set a precedent" .

"I would go back to the Falklands, but I think there are things to be organized by dialogue, I am against the loss of life: they are suffering families, they are suffering for generations to come," Hillar agreed. that he rejects for the moment the idea of ​​visiting the archipelago of tourist quality.

"I refuse to enter with a pbadport.It is to erase from my elbow what I wrote from my hand many years ago, but I am respectful of the people who are gone." , he explained.

Hillar will vote this Sunday in Tierra de Fuego as an Argentine citizen living in the Falklands. Like him, there are three other compatriots, including a woman married to an inhabitant of the islands. The other two would be neighbors of the province of Buenos Aires, as the veteran explained.

"I would be the only person at the registration level at which the National Register of Voters has awarded a table here.The school calls Entre Ríos and is located in front of Lake Escondido. , you have to cross the whole mountain range, but I'll be fine to send, "he agreed.