2023-07-13 19:27:12
The former commander-in-chief of the Navy, Edmundo González, issued a warning for possible “sovereign complications”following a trans-Andean company baptized one of its wines as Cabo de Hornos Argentina, associating the recognized Patagonian national territory with the neighboring nation.
“I imagine someone will do something with this freshness of this Argentine producer, when labeling an Argentine wine with the name of a cape that has always been Chilean. Territorial transgressions always begin with small details that no one catches,” the uniformed ex-authority assured via Twitter.
González’s annoyance arose following learning that the wine company that produces wines in Argentina and China, San Humberto Wineries, named one of its lines of fermented products as Cabo de Hornos Argentina. The company has bottles of merlot, syrah, cabernet souvignon and malbec with the name of the southernmost area of the planet, which is officially under Chilean sovereignty.
In conversation with El Mercurio de Valparaíso, the former head of the Navy assured that “it would be interesting to know why this Argentine product is using a Chilean cape, Cape Horn, as a name in a product that says ‘Cabo de Hornos Argentina’, and that has a reading that is quite clear and that does not admit much error. He can name Cape Horn whatever he wants, but eThe problem is that it says Cape Horn and Argentina below, so it gives the misleading impression that Cape Horn is Argentine“.
Similarly, Edmundo González acknowledges that the matter is of a commercial nature, but that nonetheless “it has borders of sovereign complications. What happens is that when you do not claim for these things at the country level, either commercially or diplomatically, things are taken for granted, and that is when the problems arise. “And there should be no doubt that Cape Horn is Chilean, just as the Strait of Magellan is Chilean, and I assure you that the Argentine Foreign Ministry would not like it at all for us to name a wine Ushuaia and below it we put Chile”, said González.
Bío Bío Chile consulted with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ProChile, who desisted from referring to the controversy.
On the other hand, it should be noted that the national company Viña San Pedro, also produces a wine called Cabo de Hornos.
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