A route between Chile and the Falklands is reopening an old wound

In November, a Chilean shipping company plans to run a direct, scheduled cargo service between the Chilean mainland and the Falkland Islands.

In November, a small Chilean shipping company plans to do something no one has done in living memory: run a direct, scheduled cargo service between the Chilean mainland and the Falkland Islands.

On paper it is a logistics upgrade but in practice, it drops a commercial vessel into the middle of one of South America’s oldest and most sensitive territorial disputes.

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