Somewhat of an over-reaction, you have to say. Offended by a number plate? Grow up.

...Clarkson and his team, including co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May, maintain they were subjected to unwarranted abuse from an angry mob in the lobby of their five-star hotel in Ushuaia. Clarkson's Porsche, with the Lotus Esprit driven by May and the Mustang Mach I driven by Hammond, were stoned outside the town of Tolhuin as they made their way via on side roads to the border crossing of San Sebastián, escorted by police cars with wailing sirens. The Top Gear crew had to bypass the large town of Rio Grande on their way to the Chilean border post because they were declared "persona non grata"...

But the Argentinians have not backed down. "I have no doubt they came to mock us and I'm proud of the peaceful reaction of our people," said Juan Manuel Romano, human rights secretary of Ushuaia

But the Argentinians have not backed down. "I have no doubt they came to mock us and I'm proud of the peaceful reaction of our people," said Juan Manuel Romano, human rights secretary of Ushuaia

Declassified documents...cite an official estimate .... of 22,000 killed or "disappeared" between 1975 and mid-1978. The number of people believed to have been killed or "disappeared," depending on the source, range from 9,089 to 30,000 in the period from 1976 to 1983, when the military was forced from power following Argentina's defeat in the Falklands War