Alejandro Jacobo Betts[1] (born Alexander Jacob Betts, 28 October 1947[2] – 13 March 2020) was a Falklands-born Argentine air-traffic controller and activist who worked with the Argentine government as a technical advisor on the Tierra del Fuego's Malvinas Question Provincial Observatory Advisory Council.

[7] At the age of fourteen Betts went to train as sheep shearer and later worked for LADE as an air-traffic controller at Port Stanley Airport.

[citation needed] Betts claimed that he began to question British sovereignty over the Falklands when he spoke to an Argentine tourist about the issue in the 1970s.

Betts left the Falklands a few days after the Argentine surrender, with his wife and children remaining on the islands.

[14] After leaving the Falklands, Betts moved to Córdoba Province and married his Argentine partner, Caroline.

[15] Betts campaigned in support of Argentine sovereignty over the Falklands, giving evidence at annual meetings of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization as part of Argentina's delegation.

[17] Betts was later to criticise his brother's attendance stating: De todos los encuentros el más interesante fue en 1987; los británicos buscaban restar importancia a lo que yo decía, mis palabras molestaban y la prensa internacional se interesaba por mi postura, los ingleses no tuvieron mejor idea de llevar a mi hermano, Terry Betts al Comité de Descolonización defendiendo los intereses británicos.

[14]In late 2013 Betts was made a technical advisor of the Tierra del Fuego Malvinas Observatory.

Firstly, he did not start studying Falklands history in 1976 nor conclude after two years of research that, “Argentina had absolute rights over the island territory” (Clarin, “Un malvinense contra Inglaterra”, 22 June 2011).

On 18 May 1978, Mr Betts sent a letter to a local mimeographed news sheet, the Falkland Islands Times, strongly protesting at what he saw as a weak and ineffective response by the British government to the establishment of a small Argentine base on Thule.

He left his second wife and children in the Islands in January 1982, when he developed a relationship with a young woman who worked with him in the Stanley office of the Argentine airline, LADE.