2017 in Argentina

The following lists events that happened in Argentina in 2017.

Incumbents

President: Mauricio Macri
Vice President: Gabriela Michetti

Governors

Vice Governors

Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Daniel Salvador
Vice Governor of Catamarca Province: Octavio Gutiérrez ; Jorge Solá Jais
Vice Governor of Chaco Province: Daniel Capitanich
Vice Governor of Corrientes Province: Gustavo Canteros
Vice Governor of Entre Rios Province: Adán Bahl
Vice Governor of Formosa Province: Floro Bogado ; vacant thereafter
Vice Governor of Jujuy Province: Carlos Haquim
Vice Governor of La Pampa Province: Mariano Fernández
Vice Governor of La Rioja Province: Néstor Bosetti
Vice Governor of Misiones Province: Oscar Herrera Ahuad
Vice Governor of Nenquen Province: Rolando Figueroa
Vice Governor of Rio Negro Province: Pedro Pesatti
Vice Governor of Salta Province: Miguel Isa
Vice Governor of San Juan Province: Marcelo Lima
Vice Governor of San Luis Province: Carlos Ponce
Vice Governor of Santa Cruz: Pablo González
Vice Governor of Santa Fe Province: Carlos Fascendini
Vice Governor of Santiago del Estero: José Emilio Neder ; Carlos Silva Neder
Vice Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Juan Carlos Arcando

Predicted and scheduled events

October

October 22: Argentine legislative election, 2017

Unknown month

Martín Fierro Awards ceremony

Events

January

January 1: Celebrations of the New Year's Eve in Villa Gesell end in a police incident, with 15 people detained.
January 2: The government buys four armed ships to Israel, to patrol the national borders.
January 4
* The government proposes to reduce the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14 years old.
* The national chamber of criminal affairs reject a request to liberate Milagro Sala.
* Governor María Eugenia Vidal vetoes a law in the Buenos Aires Province that would have allowed people from below and above the age of consent to attend nightclubs together at cities below 30,000 residents.
* Minister Carolina Stanley undergoes medical treatment in the lungs.
January 10: More than 2,000 manteros in the vicinity of the Once railway station are driven away by the police.
January 11
* Mauricio Macri announces an investment plan for Vaca Muerta.
* Leonardo Meirelles, sentenced in the Operation Car Wash, reveals that he had transferred half a million dollars to Gustavo Arribas, head of the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina, in 2013.
* Former governor Daniel Scioli meets Pope Francis.
January 14: It became known that the President-elect of the United States Donald Trump praised the role of Argentina in South America.
January 15: The government proposed to limit the arrival of immigrants with a criminal record.
January 16: A flood strikes the Santa Fe Province.
January 19
* Javier González Fraga is appointed president of the Banco de la Nación Argentina.
* Bicentennial of the Crossing of the Andes
January 20: A leaked audio reveals an old phone conversation between then president Cristina Kirchner and the head of the SIDE Oscar Parrilli. In the audio they discuss dummy judicial cases started against the spy Antonio Stiuso.
January 22: A report announces a recovery in the economy.
January 27
* The government halts a raise in wages in the banking system of 20%, which would be above the expected inflation rate.
* Fire at the San Nicolas Cathedral, in Rosario
* The government rejects a proposal to keep the Fútbol para todos program for six additional months.
January 28: 250 foreign fishing ships are detected at the border of the Argentine Sea
January 30: Jorge Olivera, at large since 2013, is recaptured.

February

February 1: Judge Ariel Lijo open the case based on the investigations by the late Alberto Nisman.
February 2: Retail shops start a new price system.

March

March 1: Opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina.

October

October 17 – the body of missing activist Santiago Maldonado is found in the Chubut River, two and a half months after his disappearance under suspicious circumstances after Maldonado was allegedly detained by the Gendarmerie during the repression of an indigenous protest Chubut.

December

December 29 – Nahir Galarza case: 19-year-old Nahir Galarza murders her 20-year-old boyfriend Fernando Pastorizzo in Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos.

Deaths

January 9: Politician José María Díaz Bancalari
January 13: Folk singer Horacio Guarany.
January 23: Television presenter Julieta Magaña
April 11: Politician Alberto Balestrini