The Argentines can still hope that the Malvinas will be restored to them; the British have lost most of the ill-gotten lands they took in the 18-19th c. Perhaps 50 years from now Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela will be on an ascendant curve, smaller than that of India and China, but still significant enough to establish dominance in the south Atlantic over outsiders and regain the last vestiges of European empires in the South American realm.