Eduardo Araujo was just 19 when he was killed in the Falklands, fighting a British army he and his fellow Argentine soldiers – many of them enthusiastic but illprepared conscripts like himself – could not hope to outclass. After a 74-day conflict that cost nearly 1,000 lives, Argentina surrendered.
Today it is widely acknowledged that, 25 years later, Argentina would be closer to its goal of sovereignty over the blustery South Atlantic islands if its military junta had not ordered the April 2 invasion.
