Falklands March

The «Marcha de las Malvinas» is an official song of Argentina composed in 1940 and dedicated to the Argentine claim of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands. It was composed by José Tieri and lyrics by Carlos Obligado in 1940.

As established by Law 1154, promulgated by Decree 1188/17, it is also the official anthem of the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands. It is officially sung at school events and ceremonies for students. fallen and veterans.

These events occur, in a stable manner, on April 2, when the Day of the Veteran and the Fallen in the Malvinas War is commemorated. That day in 1982 the Falklands War began. Until 2001, it was celebrated on June 10 of each year, commemorating the appointment of Luis María Vernet as the first Argentine governor of the islands in 1829.

History

On July 9, 1939, during the presidency of Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, the "Malvinas Recovery Board" was created with the aim of contributing to the dissemination and knowledge of the subject among the population; Among other activities, he organized a poetic-musical contest. On January 3, 1941, the winning composition was announced at a public event at the Augusteo Hall in Buenos Aires: Marcha de las Malvinas, by José Tieri and Carlos Obligado.

It had special coverage in the media during the War in 1982 for the recovery of the islands.

Since the Argentine presence in Puerto Argentino/Stanley, capital of the islands, in 1982 and until today in a way of claiming sovereignty, it has been sung: «Shine, oh homeland!, on your diadem the loss southern pearl.

On April 2, 2015, on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the start of the war, the government of the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands, through decree 719/15, established that the march be broadcast every day on all radio stations and television channels in the province at the beginning of broadcasts, at eight in the morning, or after broadcasting the Argentine National Anthem, if they broadcast 24 hours a day.

At the end of April 2015, the Chamber of Deputies of the province of Salta announced that it will discuss a project that calls for singing the march at the end of school, institutional and official events. On May 5, it was approved by the chamber of provincial deputies, and then the project went to the provincial Senate to seek its final sanction. At the beginning of June, the Education and Culture Commission of the Salta Senate approved the bill under review with modifications. The modifications added that it will be mandatory in school events at educational establishments at all levels and modalities of Formal and Non-Formal Education of the Educational System. The project returned to the Chamber of Deputies for review.

Original lyrics

After her neblin mantle

We won't forget them,

Las Malvinas, Argentinas

Slam the wind and roar the sea.

Neither of those horizons

Our teaching is to start,

Well, your target is in the mountains.

And in his blue he dyes the sea.

For absent, for defeat,

Under strange pavilion,

No more dear soil

From the Homeland in the extension.

Who talks to us here about forgetting,

De renunciation of forgiveness?

No more dear soil

From the Homeland in the extension.

Break the neblin mantle

Like a sun, our ideal

Las Malvinas, Argentinas

In immortal domain.

And in the sun of our emblem

Pure, crisp and triumphant

Brille "Oh, Homeland" on your diadem

The lost southern pearl.

To honor our emblem,

For national pride

Brille "Oh, Homeland" on your diadem

The lost southern pearl.