The versions published this week about alleged flights from Chile to the Malvinas that would have crossed through Argentine space without requesting official authorization generated an unexpected short circuit between Santiago and Buenos Aires and, above all, between two Ministries of Defense of friendly governments.
But the most curious thing is that it is confusing information, which some sources consider part of “preventive messages” from Argentine military sectors to the region and others from another internal in the portfolio coordinated by Jorge Taiana.
Furthermore, sources consulted by Clarion affirm that the leak of these supposed five flights they have to do with showing the “effectiveness” of the Argentine Primary Radar (RPA/170) of INVAP that Taiana installed this year in Rio GrandeTierra del Fuego, and that military sources now consider “more useful to control what comes out of the west” that is, from Chile, than what happens in the Malvinas.
The armed forces “are in the process of regeneration, of capabilities, of early warning.” For that matter, the commander of the Air Force, Brigadier Xavier Isaac, is negotiating with China and the United States the purchase of fighter planes that can, among other things, control land and sea borders.
But these versions about the alleged leak of the Argentine airspace became known in the same week that the Chilean Air Force received two aircraft from the United Kingdom for early warning, exploration and aerospace reconnaissance. They are two Boeing E-3 D Sentry, which Argentina could not acquire while the British embargo of weapons and war equipment against this country, which is dragged from the 1982 war, is in force.
On the other hand There are again movements on the high seas due to the relaunch of one of the oil projects around Malvinas, which Argentina rejects. He is the one who commands the Rockhopper and Navitas companies. And in addition, the south of Tierra del Fuego, drags overlapping claims between Chile and Argentina, which also extend to Antarctica.
“Five aircraft from Chile bound for Malvinas violated Argentine airspace in the last few hours” in the territory of Tierra del Fuego and that “the incursions occurred between July 27 and 30 and were detected by the Joint Aerospace Command dependent on the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces ”, the Infobae site had published.
In tune with Defense, the Foreign Ministry echoed the issue, but without providing information. “The Argentine Foreign Ministry, headed by Santiago Cafiero, yesterday requested information from the Government of the Republic of Chile, through its Embassy in Santiago, on flights detected by the Joint Aerospace Command of the Ministry of Defense without corresponding permits to pass through Argentine airspace and that would have had the Malvinas Islands as their destination. And he pointed out that the Argentine ambassador in Chile, Rafael Bielsa, had requested information on this subject from the trans-Andean authorities.
Hours later, Gustavo Melella, the always eloquent Governor of Fire, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands, joined the controversy, and with a battery of tweets he said “If confirmed, we would be in the presence of an extremely serious event in which it is required act with the greatest firmness and forcefulness, in a coordinated manner between the different actors with competence in the matter,” Melella said.
Instead, from Santiago de Chile, a denial of Maya Fernández, Gabriel Boric’s Minister of Defense: “The information arrives through an Argentine medium and therefore we have been in conversation with the Foreign Ministry for when some more official information arrives.” he added. “The background that we have and that we have collected is that there is no Chilean warning, whether military or civil, in any overflight without authorization through the Argentine sky,” he added.
The Argentine Sea and its fish wealth, neglected in its strategic value and exposed to the depredation of illegal fishing.
Although on Friday during an official act Taiana countered the version of her Chilean counterpart, who is the granddaughter of Salvador Allende, she ratified the information from her ministry to Infobae. He said that “aircraft from Chile have crossed Argentine airspace without notice, without a flight plan and without authorization.”
And he said that the Chileans “in principle do not know and do not recognize what planes may have been, they are working with the foreign ministries of both countries to find the best way to improve control.”
But although the Argentines claim to have radar images of the aircraft, other sources point out that they cannot discern which aircraft they are and that Possibly not only are they not military, but they are also civil aircraft, for commercial use, that do not even go to the Malvinas. They also said that they could be helicopters from the ENAP company in Chile, which are headed for oil platforms.
“Invasion of airspace: 1) The Chilean defense minister denied that the flights had existed and 2), a high-ranking national official ratified yesterday that they were of 5 helicopters that flew from Punta Arenas to the oil platforms at the eastern mouth of the Strait,” wrote journalist Rulo Quiroga from Radio del Pueblo in Río Grande.
“Invasion of air space: They blame the leak to the press, an internal confrontation in the Argentine Ministry of Defense, which takes advantage of the opportunity to generate conflict with the government of Gabriel Boric,” he added without giving the official’s name.
