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Argentine Geopolitics

Geopolítica.ar is the only geopolitical analysis outlet edited in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It reads the South Atlantic and the Malvinas question, Antarctica, the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway, the River Plate Basin and Argentina’s strategic resources from the standpoint of the Argentine national interest.

The analyses below are English editions of pieces originally published in Spanish. Each one links to its original version, which remains the reference text.

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• Flávio Bolsonaro's exit and the risk of Argentina paying for a loyalty of Milei'sOctober 28, 2026The Brazilian senator's passage through Puerto Iguazú calls for explanations that go beyond a migration formality. If affinity with Bolsonarism conditions the relationship with Brazil, Argentina exposes its commercial interests and its diplomatic autonomy.
• Lula halts Bolsonarism: Milei loses a bet and Argentina faces a strategic dilemmaOctober 27, 2026Lula’s re-election upsets the geopolitical expectations of Washington and Buenos Aires. Argentina’s challenge will be to rebuild an indispensable relationship without confusing the national interest with the government’s ideological preferences.
• Twelve British signals on escalation in the South AtlanticOctober 11, 2026A survey of official British documents and of the UK general and specialist press between April and October 2026 identifies twelve variables that measure tension over the Malvinas. Eight push towards escalation and four contain it, with deadlines converging between November 2026 and the first half of 2028.
• Chile raises a «critical event» while it breaks the cordon around the British occupationOctober 11, 2026Information attributed to unidentified Chilean intelligence sources claims that Argentina could intercept the Danstar, the freighter with which Punta Arenas intends to supply the British occupation of the Malvinas. The supposed report has no issuing body and no date, but it has already served a political purpose. It casts Argentina as a potential aggressor before the ship sails and conflates the Strait of Magellan with the Malvinas, just as a breach opens in the cordon Argentina has maintained around the archipelago since 2010.
• A route from Punta Arenas will supply the British occupation of the MalvinasSeptember 10, 2026Argentina has three open fronts in the far south and tends to discuss them separately. This week they came into view as one, and the most urgent was also the least mentioned. The sea route opening in November from Punta Arenas to Puerto Argentino gives the islands the continental rear base they never had. Together with Sea Lion oil, it completes the two pillars of the archipelago’s economic viability. Isolation was the last cost the occupation still bore.
• The South Atlantic is a system, and Argentina discusses it in partsSeptember 10, 2026Buenos Aires treats the Malvinas, Antarctica, illegal fishing and Tierra del Fuego as separate files. London runs them as a single system, with one command linking Mount Pleasant, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and Ascension, and with a web of South American relationships that lowers the cost of staying in the South Atlantic. Chile, Uruguay and Brazil sustain that web without ever withdrawing their diplomatic support for the Argentine position, because so far that double game has cost them nothing.
• Brazil under pressure: five geopolitical fronts reshaping South AmericaAugust 5, 2026US tariffs, the dispute over Brazil's elections, the securitisation of organised crime, the crisis with Argentina and the rapprochement with China are not unrelated events. Taken together, they reveal a growing struggle to determine Brazil's international orientation and, by extension, the South American balance of power.
• When ideological affinity displaces the national interestJuly 31, 2026Javier Milei's participation in the Brazilian presidential campaign drew a formal response from Itamaraty. There is no rupture or economic retaliation yet, but Argentina has needlessly weakened its channels with the country that concentrates some of its most important industrial, energy and regional interests.
• Thirteen million hectares: foreign ownership of Argentine land, department by departmentAugust 6, 2025Official data from the National Rural Land Registry show 36 departments above the 15% legal ceiling on foreign ownership. Four of the most affected lie along the Paraná River.
• The Paraná-Paraguay Waterway: the river artery of Argentina’s national interestThe geopolitics of the corridor that carries the bulk of Argentina’s exports: sovereignty, revenue and federalism after the concession of the Main Navigable Waterway.
• The Malvinas and the South Atlantic: the geopolitics of an occupied oceanFrom the diplomatic dispute to the militarisation of the South Atlantic: maritime interests, the continental shelf and the gateway to Antarctica.
• Lithium: the new map of critical minerals and the challenge of industrialising at sourceThe energy transition, competing models and the federal ownership of the resource: why the key lies in the capacity to industrialise lithium rather than in the mineral itself.
• Antarctica: science as sovereignty and the myth of 2048A century-old presence, the Antarctic Treaty regime and the new race for the white continent.

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