2019 in Argentina

The following lists events that happened or will happen in Argentina in 2019.

Incumbents

President: Mauricio Macri – Alberto Fernández
Vice President: Gabriela Michetti – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Governors

Vice Governors

Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Daniel Salvador ; Verónica Magario
Vice Governor of Catamarca Province: Jorge Solá Jais ; Rubén Dusso
Vice Governor of Chaco Province: Daniel Capitanich ; Analía Rach Quiroga
Vice Governor of Corrientes Province: Gustavo Canteros
Vice Governor of Entre Rios Province: Adán Bahl ; María Laura Stratta
Vice Governor of Formosa Province: vacant ; Eber Wilson Solís
Vice Governor of Jujuy Province: Carlos Haquim
Vice Governor of La Pampa Province: Mariano Fernández
Vice Governor of La Rioja Province: Néstor Bosetti ; Florencia López
Vice Governor of Misiones Province: Oscar Herrera Ahuad ; Carlos Omar Arce
Vice Governor of Nenquen Province: Rolando Figueroa ; Marcos Koopmann
Vice Governor of Rio Negro Province: Pedro Pesatti ; Alejandro Palmieri
Vice Governor of Salta Province: Miguel Isa ; Antonio Marocco
Vice Governor of San Juan Province: Marcelo Lima ; Roberto Gattoni
Vice Governor of San Luis Province: Carlos Ponce ; Eduardo Mones Ruiz
Vice Governor of Santa Cruz: Pablo González ; Eugenio Quiroga
Vice Governor of Santa Fe Province: Carlos Fascendini ; Alejandra Rodenas
Vice Governor of Santiago del Estero: Carlos Silva Neder
Vice Governor of Tierra del Fuego:
* until 10 December: Juan Carlos Arcando
* 10 December-17 December: vacant
* starting 10 December: Mónica Urquiza

Events

January

January 1: Jair Bolsonaro is inaugurated as president of Brazil. Chancellor Jorge Faurie attends the inauguration, as president Mauricio Macri was on vacation.
January 2: Former president Fernando de la Rúa is hospitalized because of cardiac problems.
January 3: The Argentine government reassured its claim in the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute at the 186º anniversary of the British occupation in 1833.
January 4: Cacerolazo in Buenos Aires against the raises in taxes.
January 10: No Argentine politicians attend the second inauguration of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. Macri calls him a dictator in his Twitter account.
January 14: Milagro Sala is sentenced to 13 years of prison, for corruption charges.
January 15: Macri makes his first speech at the Santa Cruz Province, alongside kirchnerite governor Alicia Kirchner.
January 16: Macri meets with Bolsonaro in Brasil. Both of them rejected Maduro as a dictator.
January 18: The KKL honors the prosecutor Alberto Nisman with a memorial, four years after his death.
January 21: Macri signs a decree to regulate the asset recovery from corruption cases.
January 23
* Macri acknowledges Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.
* Kirchnerist politicians, on the other hand, support Maduro and consider the appointment of Guaidó as a coup d'état organized by the United States. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, ally of Maduro during his presidency, did not make comments.
January 27: La Rioja Province celebrates a referendum over an amendment to the provincial constitution, to allow governor Sergio Casas to run for a new term of office. The parties, however, do not agree on the interpretation of the results.
January 29: After some weeks of speculation, governor María Eugenia Vidal announces that the provincial elections in the Buenos Aires Province will be held together with the 2019 Argentine general election.
January 30
* In line with Vidal, Buenos Aires mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announces that the election in the Buenos Aires city will also be held together with the national ones.
* Musician Manuel Vilca is hospitalized in Bolivia, and has to pay 17,000 US dollars for the treatments. This starts a diplomatic conflict between Jujuy governor Gerardo Morales and Bolivian president Evo Morales, as Bolivians are treated in Argentine hospitals for free.

February

February 3: Agustín Zbar, president of the AMIA, resigns. He had proposed the DAIA to decline the case against former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, which the DAIA rejected. He is replaced by Ariel Eichbaum.

April

April 25: Sinceramente, the first book written by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, former President of Argentina and current Senator for the Buenos Aires Province, is released

Predicted and scheduled events

Deaths

January 10 – Leo Satragno, musician.
January 21 – Emiliano Sala, Argentine professional footballer
February 11 – Ricardo Boechat, Argentine-born Brazilian journalist
February 17 – Eduardo Bauza, first Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina.
February 23 – Natacha Jaitt, model.
February 26 – Christian Bach, actress.
March 2 – Franco Macri, Italian-Argentine businessman
May 5 – Paco Cabasés, Argentine professional footballer
July 9 – Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina
July 19 – César Pelli, Argentine-American architect
July 21 – Hugo Cóccaro, Argentine politician
August 12 – José Luis Brown, Argentine footballer

2019 in Argentina

Incumbents

Governors

Vice Governors

Events

January

February

April

Predicted and scheduled events

May

October

Unknown month

Deaths