Over waters that have long carried the weight of contested history, Argentina has moved from rhetoric to legal action, filing criminal charges against an oil company for drilling near the Falkland Islands — territory Buenos Aires calls Las Malvinas and has never ceased to claim as its own. President Milei, sharpening a posture his critics once called too soft, has declared the Sea Lion oilfield a threat to Argentine sovereignty and dismissed the islanders' near-unanimous 2013 vote to remain British as the opinion of people living on usurped land. The charges carry no international enforcement