MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

“Mummy's War” on Falkland's conflict ready to be aired

Lady Thatcher and her daughter Carol

Carol Thatcher's “Mummy's War”, a documentary on the 1982 Falkland Islands war will be aired next week in London, it was announced by the European press.

The film, which coincides with the 25th anniversary of the war will be exhibited on Channel 4 and is a "controversial collection of interviews and facts" on the 74 days conflict between Argentina and Great Britain. Carol Thatcher, a renowned journalist, did most of her field work in Buenos Aires and the Falkland Islands where she spent time visiting the main battle sites. The documentary includes an interview with an Argentine mother who tells Carol, --looking to the camera-- that her mother, the Iron Lady will be "inflicted heavenly punishment for her actions". The experience of having filmed the documentary "showed me the other side of a conflict which I lived personally", said Carol Thatcher. The Falklands war or South Atlantic conflict is attributed to have helped the downfall not only of then president (dictator) General Leopoldo Galtieri but of the brutal military regime that ruled Argentine since 1976. In October 1983 free and open elections were held and on December 10 of the same year Argentina was again on the track to full democracy. For Margaret Thatcher victory in the Falklands turned her into a world leader and paved the way for her open market and privatization policies which made the British economy one of the fastest growing in Europe. The Iron Lady also became the longest serving British Prime Minister since Lord Salisbury, 1979/1990.