An expected Peronist victory in the October-November Argentine presidential election will increase tensions between that nation and Britain. Front and center will be an increasingly hawkish Argentine position towards the Falkland Islands.

A British territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Falkland Islands are claimed by Argentina under the title of the Malvinas Islands. In April 1982, Argentina launched a surprise invasion of the islands, seizing them until a British task force retook the territory in June of that year. But while a great number of things have obviously changed over the past 37 years, the Falklands remain a sticking point in British-Argentine relations.