It’s fair to say that Argentina and the United Kingdom share a bit of back history when it comes to the Falkland Islands and renewed tensions over rightful sovereignty for these lands could have been easily enough predicted.

The onslaught of appeal to international mediators is quite a spectacle. From appealing to the United Nations for discussions, to most recently, Hilary Clinton, USA Secretary of State, offering to step in and promising to be impartial, it becomes difficult to determine any one true ruling party.

“It is our position that this is a matter to be resolved between the UK and Argentina,” Clinton, the told press on Monday March 1 after embarking upon her tour of South America which, somewhat strangely, did not include visiting Argentina until she had a change of heart later into the journey.

In the tail-end of April, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and a notoriously outspoken leader, addressed the Queen of England directly from his weekly television show, asking the UK to return the Falkland’s to the rightful ownership of Argentina.

“The time for empires are over, haven’t you noticed? Return the Malvinas to the Argentine people,” he told her onscreen.

“The English are still threatening Argentina. Things have changed. We are no longer in 1982. If conflict breaks out, be sure Argentina will not be alone like it was back then.”

All in all, it’s been a particularly outspoken debacle thus far, with the heat turned up by British plans to commence oil exploration making the Falkland’s or Malvinas’ (depending on which reports you read) much more economically lucrative for both parties. Britain claims that it has invested heavily and is poised to begin drilling, while Argentina pointedly states that this is a secondary issue to original ownership.

To summarise, it’s extremely difficult to identify a winner, loser, right or wrong party in this struggle. Despite being just 300 miles from Argentine mainland, the majority of Falklander’s choose to ‘live British’ and favour this means of identity, yet whether this bears upon international discussion today remains to be seen. The world waits with baited breath as further media reports of support and opposition flood in from all over, as it looks like we are some way off from finding a solution.