2011 in Argentina

Events from the year 2011 in Argentina.

Incumbents

President: Cristina Fernández de KirchnerVice President: Julio Cobos

Lucía Corpacci wins the elections for governor of Catamarca.
The elections for governor of Chubut end in a technical tie; the candidate Carlos Eliceche denounced electoral fraud. Mario Das Neves, governor of Chubut, declines his candidature to the 2011 presidential elections.
The judiciary of Suiza requests information about truck union leader Hugo Moyano. Moyano calls for a massive strike.

Julio Cobos declines his candidature to run for the presidency of Argentina. Ernesto Sanz does the same a pair of weeks later. Thus, Ricardo Alfonsín is appointed candidate to the presidency for the Radical Civic Union.

Mauricio Macri declines his candidature to run for the presidency of Argentina, running instead for reelection as mayor of Buenos Aires.
Cristina Fernández choose Daniel Filmus to run for mayor of Buenos Aires.
A show of the rock band La Renga ends with a death caused by pyrotechnic flare.

River Plate lost a two-ledged match against Belgrano, being relegated to the National B tournament. The second match ends with a massive riot at the Monumental.

Mauricio Macri runs for reelection as mayor of Buenos Aires, getting nearly 47% of the vote. The results call for a runoff election against Daniel Filmus, the second candidate, who got the 27% of the vote.
Socialist Antonio Bonfatti becomes governor of Santa Fe. Miguel del Sel gets an unexpected second place in the election, leaving the kirchnerist candidate Agustín Rossi in the third place.
In the Noble siblings case, Marcela and Felipe Noble Herrera accepted a DNA profiling against a database of disappeared women during the Dirty War. All results are negative, confirming that they were not sons of disappeared women.
Argentina hosts the 2011 Copa América. The Argentina national football team, however, is defeated early, in a penalty shoot-out against Uruguay.

January 4 - Gustavo Kupinski, 36, guitarist
January 10 - María Elena Walsh, 80, musician, poet and writer
January 12 - Clemar Bucci, 90, racing driver
February 1 - Julio Barragán, 82, painter
February 2 - Daniela Castelo, 47, journalist and radio host
February 20 - Noemí Simonetto de Portela, 85, athlete
March 5 - Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born biochemist and companion of Che Guevara
March 10 - David Viñas, dramatist, critic, and novelist
March 12 - Shifra Lerer, 95, Argentine-born actress
March 20 - Néstor de Vicente, 46, footballer
March 25 - Hugo Midón, 67, children's literature writer
April 20 - Osvaldo Miranda, 95, actor
April 30 - Ernesto Sábato, 99, writer and physicist
May 6 - Rolo Puente, 71, actor
May 8 - Carlos Trillo, 68, comic book writer
June 22 - Carmelo Juan Giaquinta, 81, archbishop
July 7 - José Carlos Martínez, 48, politician
July 9 - Facundo Cabral, 74, singer
August 1 - Florentina Gómez Miranda, 99, teacher and lawyer
August 12 - Francisco Solano López, 83, comic book artist
August 15 - Hugo Perié, 67, politician
August 21 - Ezra Sued, 88, footballer
November 24 - Antonio Domingo Bussi, 85, military