Editing Falklands War (section)

====Peru====
[[Peru]] attempted to purchase 12 Exocet missiles from France, to be delivered to Argentina in a failed secret operation.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://en.mercopress.com/2012/04/03/the-peruvian-exocet-connection-in-the-falklands-malvinas-war | title=The Peruvian Exocet connection in the Falklands/Malvinas war | work=Mercopress | date=3 April 2012 | access-date=21 April 2012 | archive-date=8 April 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408032756/http://en.mercopress.com/2012/04/03/the-peruvian-exocet-connection-in-the-falklands-malvinas-war | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://america.infobae.com/notas/47496-El-otro-rol-de-Peru-durante-la-guerra-de-Malvinas | title=El otro rol de Peru durante la guerra de Malvinas | work=Infobae | date=1 April 2012 | access-date=21 April 2012 | language=es | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505053041/http://america.infobae.com/notas/47496-El-otro-rol-de-Peru-durante-la-guerra-de-Malvinas | archive-date=5 May 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Peru also openly sent "[[Dassault Mirage|Mirages]], pilots and missiles" to Argentina during the war.<ref>[http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2010/03/24/elpais/p-02165910.htm "Tras el pedido de perdón y en medio de elogios, Cristina regresó de Perú"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023004623/http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2010/03/24/elpais/p-02165910.htm |date=23 October 2012 }} in Argentine newspaper ''[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]]'' on 24 March 2010 {{in lang|es}}</ref> That nation also supplied the Argentine forces with 40 Strela-2M shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile launchers and three experienced operators to help train in the use of those weapons.<ref>[https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2019/06/19/malvinas-documentos-desclasificados-peru-y-libia-ayudaron-a-la-argentina-con-misiles-sovieticos/ Perú y Libia ayudaron a la Argentina con misiles soviéticos]</ref> Peru had earlier transferred ten Hercules transport planes to Argentina soon after the British Task Force had set sail in April 1982.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Burns |first=Jimmy |title=The land that lost its heroes: how Argentina lost the Falklands War |date=2002 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-0-7475-5872-9 |location=London |pages=190}}</ref> Nick van der Bijl records that, after the Argentine defeat at Goose Green, [[Venezuela]] and [[Guatemala]] offered to send [[paratrooper]]s to the Falklands.<ref>{{cite book |last=van der Bijl |first=Nick |date=1999 |title=Nine battles to Stanley |publisher=Leo Cooper |isbn=978-0850526196 |page=141 |quote=The Junta were slow to admit defeat, but when the news was broadcast, Venezuela and Guatemala offered to send airborne units to 'smash the British in the Falklands'. }}</ref>