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Article: RESOLVED: Border Dispute In Patagonia;Argentines Bask in Ruling Viewed as Model for Others
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- The Washington Post
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- February 18, 1995
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Under a big sky in this remote corner of Patagonia, where the wind
seems part of the landscape, a man known to everyone as Pajarito, or
the Little Bird, is triumphantly flying the colors. "I put a flag up
there, on top of the tree," he said, pointing to the Andean peaks in
the horizon. "Didn't you see it?"
Parajito is standing quite legally on Argentine soil, near the
aptly named Laguna del Desierto -- or Desert Lake. But it isn't the
flag whipping high on a distant tree, or the large one on the wall of
his log cabin, or the one that Pajarito painted on a dented piece of
tin and nailed to a conifer, that proclaims this is so.
After three years of study, 60 hours of oral arguments, 4,400 ...