The
Center of Volunteers for the Fatherland was created the 10 of August
of 1982 as an answer to the campaign of desmalvinización
implemented by the military government. It counted with 11,458
members that had offered as Volunteers during the war against
England.
Our objectives were continue fighting, by other means,for
the recovery of the Falklands Islands. Also to make Argentineans
take conscience that the loss of a battle did not have to mean the
resignation to the final objective and implemented a campaign
of acts that maintained alive the demonstrated national passion
during the conflict.
In the following pages a series of
notes of those times appeared in different national and foreign
mass media that demonstrate the activity of the Organization and the
problems that their activities caused to the British
government. All these activities, absolutely pacific,
but with ample international repercussion, forced the English
government to declare the president of the Center, Ing. Osvaldo
Destefanis, the public enemy Number 1 , as it can be
appreciated in the document that issues the British embassy in
Buenos Aires.
We believe that the definitive recovery of
the Falklands Islands will depend on the price that the usurpers
must pay to maintain them. History demonstrates that never England
gave back a colony without being forced. And there are many ways to
force it peacefully. It depends on all, citizens and
government to find the way definitively to expel the invaders from
our territory.
Margaret Thatcher declared in the British parliament
that Destefanis was " pain in the ass " for her
government. That is a price to pay.
The Center of Volunteers
organized the first trip to the Falklands Islands for the relatives
of the fallen ones in combat. The same one began with the clawing of
the Argentine steam Lago Lacar the 29 of March of 1983.
Destefanis, 47 relatives and 9 journalists French, Spaniards and
North Americans traveled along with .
The 29 of March of 1984, Ing.
Destefanis, along with Ramon Pizarro father of a fallen soldier and
Victor Cisneros, brother of the famous commando " Cisneros Dog
" disembarked in the Falklands and hoisted an Argentine flag.
This fact caused to the destitution of then the military governor
Major General Keith Spacie.
The 19 of November of 1983 Destefanis
embarked like stowaway in the Swedish steamship Lindblad Explorer that
made the trip from Montevideo to the Falklands, Georgias and Antártida
arriving again at the Falklands Islands.
In June of 1984
along with a group Irish and French patriots pulled down
the English flag in the british islands of Minquiers
(English Channel) hoisting in his place the Argentine flag.
In Argentina were done campaigns of harasing against the Bank
of London (today Lloyds Bank) financial agent of U.K , de
during the war. |