2019 in Argentina explained

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

Incumbents

• President

Mauricio Macri (until December 10) – Alberto Fernández (starting December 10)

• Vice President: Gabriela Michetti (until December 10) – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (starting December 10)

Governors

• Governor of Buenos Aires Province

María Eugenia Vidal (until 11 December); Axel Kicillof (from 11 December)

• Governor of Catamarca Province

Lucía Corpacci (until 11 December); Raúl Jalil (starting 10 December)

• Governor of Chaco Province

Domingo Peppo (until 11 December); Jorge Capitanich (starting 10 December)

• Governor of Chubut Province

Mariano Arcioni

• Governor of Córdoba

Juan Schiaretti

• Governor of Corrientes Province

Gustavo Valdés

• Governor of Entre Ríos Province

Gustavo Bordet

• Governor of Formosa Province

Gildo Insfrán

• Governor of Jujuy Province

Gerardo Morales

• Governor of La Pampa Province

Carlos Verna (until 10 December); Sergio Ziliotto (starting 11 December)

• Governor of La Rioja Province

Ricardo Quintela

• Governor of Mendoza Province

Alfredo Cornejo (until 10 December); Rodolfo Suárez (starting 10 December)

• Governor of Misiones Province

Hugo Passalacqua (until 10 December); Oscar Herrera Ahuad (starting 10 December)

• Governor of Neuquén Province

Omar Gutiérrez

• Governor of Río Negro Province

Alberto Weretilneck (until 10 December); Arabela Carreras (starting 10 December)

• Governor of Salta Province

Juan Manuel Urtubey (until 10 December); Gustavo Sáenz (starting 10 December)

• Governor of San Juan Province

Sergio Uñac

• Governor of San Luis Province

Alberto Rodríguez Saá

• Governor of Santa Cruz Province

Alicia Kirchner

• Governor of Santa Fe Province

Miguel Lifschitz (until 10 December); Omar Perotti (starting 11 December)

• Governor of Santiago del Estero

Gerardo Zamora

• Governor of Tierra del Fuego

• • until 10 December: Rosana Bertone
  • 10 December-17 December: Juan Carlos Arcando
  • starting 10 December: Gustavo Melella
• Governor of Tucumán

Juan Luis Manzur

Vice Governors

• Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Daniel Salvador (until 10 December); Verónica Magario (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Catamarca Province: Jorge Solá Jais (until 10 December); Rubén Dusso (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Chaco Province: Daniel Capitanich (until 10 December); Analía Rach Quiroga (starting 10 December)
  • Vice Governor of Corrientes Province: Gustavo Canteros Vice Governor of Entre Rios Province: Adán Bahl (until 10 December); María Laura Stratta (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Formosa Province: vacant (until 10 December); Eber Wilson Solís (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Jujuy Province: Carlos Haquim
  • Vice Governor of La Pampa Province: Mariano Fernández Vice Governor of La Rioja Province: Néstor Bosetti (until 10 December); Florencia López (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Misiones Province: Oscar Herrera Ahuad (until 10 December); Carlos Omar Arce (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Nenquen Province: Rolando Figueroa (until 10 December); Marcos Koopmann (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Rio Negro Province: Pedro Pesatti (until 10 December); Alejandro Palmieri (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Salta Province: Miguel Isa (until 10 December); Antonio Marocco (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of San Juan Province: Marcelo Lima (until 10 December); Roberto Gattoni (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of San Luis Province: Carlos Ponce (until 10 December); Eduardo Mones Ruiz (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Santa Cruz: Pablo González (until 10 December); Eugenio Quiroga (starting 10 December)
• Vice Governor of Santa Fe Province: Carlos Fascendini (until 10 December); Alejandra Rodenas (starting 10 December)
• 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.^[1]
• January 2: Former president Fernando de la Rúa is hospitalized because of cardiac problems.^[2]
• January 3: The Argentine government reassured its claim in the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute at the 186º anniversary of the British occupation in 1833.^[3]
• January 4: Cacerolazo in Buenos Aires against the raises in taxes.^[4]
• January 10: No Argentine politicians attend the second inauguration of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. Macri calls him a dictator in his Twitter account.^[5]
• January 14: Milagro Sala is sentenced to 13 years of prison, for corruption charges.^[6]
• January 15: Macri makes his first speech at the Santa Cruz Province, alongside kirchnerite governor Alicia Kirchner.^[7]
• January 16: Macri meets with Bolsonaro in Brasil. Both of them rejected Maduro as a dictator.^[8]
• January 18: The KKL honors the prosecutor Alberto Nisman with a memorial, four years after his death.^[9]
• January 21: Macri signs a decree to regulate the asset recovery from corruption cases.^[10]
• January 23
  • Macri acknowledges Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.^[11]
  • 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.^[12]
• 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.^[13]
• 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.^[14]
• 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.^[15]
  • 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.^[16]

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.^[17]

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

May

• End of the 2018–19 Argentine Primera División tournament.

October

• Argentine general election, 2019

Unknown month

• Martín Fierro Awards ceremony.
• Superclásico

Deaths

• January 10 – Leo Satragno, musician.^[18]
• January 21 – Emiliano Sala, Argentine professional footballer (b. 1990)^[19]
• February 11 – Ricardo Boechat, Argentine-born Brazilian journalist (b. 1952)^[20]
• February 17 – Eduardo Bauza, first Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina.^[21]
• February 23 – Natacha Jaitt, model.^[22]
• February 26 – Christian Bach, actress.^[23]
• March 2 – Franco Macri, Italian-Argentine businessman (b. 1930)^[24]
• May 5 – Paco Cabasés, Argentine professional footballer (b. 1916)^[25]
• July 9 – Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina (b. 1937)^[26]
• July 19 – César Pelli, Argentine-American architect (b. 1926)^[27]
• July 21 – Hugo Cóccaro, Argentine politician (b. 1954)^[28]
• August 12 – José Luis Brown, Argentine footballer (b. 1956)^[29]

See also

• List of Argentine films of 2019
• 2019 Pan American Games

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faurie en la asunción de Bolsonaro: "Nos interesa que a Brasil le vaya bien". Faurie in the inauguration of Bolsonaro: "We want Brazil to be good". es. Maia Jastreblansky . January 1, 2019. La Nación. January 10, 2019.
2. Web site: Internaron al expresidente Fernando de la Rúa. Former president Fernando de la Rúa is hospitalized. es. January 2, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
3. Web site: A 186 años de la ocupación británica de Malvinas, el Gobierno reafirmó el derecho de soberanía de la Argentina. 186 years after the British occupation of the Malvinas, the government reaffirmed the right of the Argentine sovereignty claim. es. January 3, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019. February 4, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190204231154/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/2207602-a-186-anos-ocupacion-britanica-malvinas-gobierno. dead.
4. Web site: "Ruidazo" en distintas esquinas de la Ciudad contra los aumentos de tarifas. "Ruidazo" in several squares of the city against the raises in taxes. es. January 4, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
5. Web site: Mauricio Macri, durante la asunción de Maduro: "Intenta burlarse de la democracia, Venezuela vive bajo una dictadura". Mauricio Macri, during the inauguration of Maduro: "He tries to mock democracy, Venezuela lives under a dictatorship". es. January 10, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019. February 3, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190203025409/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/2209665-mauricio-macri-maduro-hoy-intenta-burlarse-democracia. dead.
6. Web site: Condenaron a Milagro Sala a 13 años de prisión por el desvío de fondos públicos. Milagro Sala is sentenced to 13 years of prison for redirection of public funds. es. January 14, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
7. Web site: Macri compartió un acto con Alicia Kirchner y llamó a "tirar en la misma dirección". Macri shared an event with Alicia Kirchner and proposed to "work together". es. Mariela Arias. January 15, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
8. Web site: Macri y Bolsonaro condenaron al régimen de Maduro: "Es un dictador que busca perpetuarse en el poder". Macri and Bolsonaro rejected the regime of Maduro: "he's a dictator that seeks to perpetuate himself in power". es. January 16, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
9. Web site: Marking Fourth Anniversary of Alberto Nisman's Murder, Israel Unveils Memorial to Argentine Prosecutor Who Sought Justice for Iran-Linked Bombing of Buenos Aires Jewish Center. Ben Cohen. January 18, 2019. Algemeiner. February 4, 2019.
10. Web site: Mauricio Macri anunció la extinción de dominio por decreto: "En la Argentina de hoy, el que las hace las paga". Mauricio Macri announced the asset recovery by decree: "In modern Argentina, crime does not pay". es. January 21, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
11. Web site: Crisis en Venezuela: Macri reconoció a Juan Guaidó como presidente interino. Crisis in Venezuela: Macri acknowledged Juan Guaidó as interim president. es. January 23, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
12. Web site: El kirchnerismo denunció un "intento de golpe" en Venezuela. Kirchnerism denounced a "coup attempt" in Venezuela. es. January 23, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
13. Web site: Los riojanos le dieron la espalda al plebiscito de Sergio Casas: solo votó el 44 por ciento del padrón. The Riojans rejected Sergio Casas' referendum: only 44% of voters voted. es. January 27, 2019. Infobae. January 28, 2019.
14. Web site: Vidal decidió que no adelantará las elecciones en Buenos Aires. Vidal decided that she will not advance the elections in Buenos Aires. es. January 29, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
15. Web site: Rodríguez Larreta unificará también la elección de la ciudad con la presidencial. Rodríguez Larreta will also unify the city elections with the presidential ones. es. Jaime Rosemberg. January 30, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
16. Web site: Morales repudió a Evo Morales por el trato "deshumanizado" hacia argentinos: "Le tendría que dar vergüenza". Morales condemned Evo Morales for the "deshumanized" treatment to Argentines: "You should be ashamed". es. January 30, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
17. Web site: El presidente de la AMIA pidió "licencia por tiempo indefinido" tras la polémica por el memorándum con Irán. The president of the AMIA took "license for an indefinite time" after the controversy for the memorandum with Iran. es. February 3, 2019. La Nación. February 4, 2019.
18. Web site: Murió Leo Satragno, hijo de Pinky y Raúl Lavié . January 11, 2019 . January 11, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190111035843/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/2209719-murio-leo-satragno-hijo-pinky-raul-lavie . dead .
19. News: Plane body identified as footballer Sala. February 8, 2019. BBC News.
20. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2019/02/jornalista-ricardo-boechat-morre-em-queda-de-helicoptero-em-sp.shtml Jornalista Ricardo Boechat morre em queda de helicóptero em SP
21. Web site: Murió Eduardo Bauzá, exministro del gobierno de Carlos Menem y primer jefe de Gabinete . February 18, 2019 . February 17, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190217224836/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/2220970-murio-eduardo-bauza-exministro-del-gobierno-carlos . dead .
22. https://www.lanacion.com.ar/2222972-la-muerte-natacha-jaitt-fue-falla-multiorganica La muerte de Natacha Jaitt fue por una "falla multiorgánica" según los resultados de la autopsia
23. https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Christian-Bach-Argentina-Actress-Obit-506555271.html Argentine Actress Christian Bach Has Died at 59
24. https://www.clarin.com/politica/88-anos-murio-franco-macri-padre-presidente_0_dxu17VW2l.html Murió Franco Macri, padre del Presidente y jefe del grupo de empresas familiar
25. https://www.cadena3.com/noticias/deportes/murio-paco-cabases-emblema-historia-talleres_138845 Murió "Paco" Cabasés, emblema de la historia de Talleres
26. https://www.clarin.com/politica/murio-fernando-rua-militancia-poder-breve-conflictiva-gestion_0_DPpgwnnJ_.html Murió Fernando de la Rúa: de la militancia al poder, con una breve y conflictiva gestión
27. https://www.trtworld.com/life/cesar-pelli-argentine-architect-behind-the-petronas-towers-dies-aged-92-28383 Cesar Pelli, Argentine architect behind the Petronas Towers, dies aged 92
28. http://www.sur54.com/tenia_64_anos_fallecio_en_buenos_aires_el_ex_gobernador_hugo_coccaro Tenía 64 años: Falleció en Buenos Aires el ex gobernador Hugo Cóccaro
29. Web site: Argentina defender who scored in 1986 World Cup final dies. TheJournal.ie. August 13, 2019. August 13, 2019.