Argentina began this month ninety days oil and gas 3D seismic surveying of its continental platform in the Colorada Marina basin 200 miles off Mar del Plata.
The author of The secret war for the Falklands Nigel West called in Punta Arenas last week and together with local journalists visited the location in southern Chile where in May 1982 a Royal Navy helicopter involved in a failed secret mission had to land and was destroyed.
Uruguay accused Argentina of violating Mercosur regulations and Brazil of passive complicity by not reacting, and under these circumstances there's no way Mercosur can advance, claimed Uruguayan Minister of Economy Danilo Astori.