An Argentine Navy airplane is seen as it flies over the Atlantic Ocean during the search for the ARA San Juan submarine missing at sea, Argentina November 22, 2017. Argentine Navy/Handout via REUTERS
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The search for an Argentine submarine missing in the South Atlantic for more than a week has highlighted the dwindling resources and lack of training faced by the armed forces since the end of a military dictatorship in the early 1980s.
As South America's second-largest economy has lurched from one crisis to the next in recent decades, military funding has not been a priority for cash-strapped governments, and an incident like the disappearance of the ARA San Juan was a problem in the making, military and political analysts said.
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