MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Brazilian television calls Malvinas “Falklands”

Brazil's main television station international signal, TV Globo refers to the Malvinas Islands as “Falklands”, complained the Argentine agency DYN.

The controversy is over a special program on the Falklands' wildlife which the Brazilian TV Globo station is promoting including in Argentina.

The program is a chapter of the "Globo Reporter" and refers to wildlife in the Falkland Islands, "also known as Malvinas".

DYN points out that the TV Globo promotion comes as a surprise since the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has always supported Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Malvinas, "which were illegally taken over by the British in 1833".