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Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

in 2017.

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

Mauricio Macri Mauricio Macri (; born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previo ...

*Vice President:

Gabriela Michetti Marta Gabriela Michetti Illia (; born 28 May 1965) is an Argentine politician and was Vice President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019 during Mauricio Macri's administration. Before her, the only woman to serve as vice president was Isabel Perón. ...

Governors

Governor of Buenos Aires Province The Governor of Buenos Aires Province ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) is a citizen of the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vic ...

María Eugenia Vidal María Eugenia Vidal (born 8 September 1973) is an Argentine politician who served as Governor of the Buenos Aires Province, being the first woman in the office, and the first non- Peronist since 1987. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), she ...

Governor of Catamarca Province The Governor of Catamarca is a citizen of Catamarca Province, Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently the governor of Catamarca is Raúl Jalil. Governo ...

Lucía Corpacci Lucía Benigna Corpacci (born 4 December 1959) is an Argentine physician and politician. A member of the Justicialist Party, she was governor of Catamarca Province from 2011 to 2019, the first female governor in Catamarca and the fourth female go ...

Governor of Chaco Province The Governor of Chaco ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia del Chaco) is a citizen of the Chaco Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. The current governor ...

Domingo Peppo Oscar Domingo Peppo (born 6 July 1958) is an Argentina, Argentine politician. He was elected governor of the Chaco Province in 2015 (with 55.42% of the vote). In the early 1980s, he received a degree in construction, hydraulic and civil engineeri ...

* Governor of Chubut Province: Mario Das Neves (until 3 October); Mariano Arcioni (starting 3 October) * Governor of Córdoba: Juan Schiaretti * Governor of Corrientes Province:

Ricardo Colombi Ricardo Colombi (born August 30, 1957) is an Argentine lawyer and politician elected Governor of Corrientes Province in 2009. Life and times Ricardo Horacio Colombi was born in Mercedes, a Corrientes Province agricultural and cattle ranching hub ...

(until 10 December); Gustavo Valdés (starting 10 December) *

Governor of Entre Ríos Province The Governor of Entre Ríos ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Entre Ríos) is a citizen of the Entre Ríos Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Cur ...

Gustavo Bordet Gustavo Bordet (born February 21, 1962) is an Argentine politician, the governor of Entre Ríos Province. He has previously served as mayor of Concordia, Entre Ríos. Bordet was born in Concordia, Entre Ríos in 1962. He worked as a legislator ...

Governor of Formosa Province The Governor of Formosa ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Formosa) is a citizen of the Formosa Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Since 1995, the ...

Gildo Insfrán Gildo Insfrán (born 19 January 1951) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, who has been Governor of Formosa Province since 1995. Having been close to former President Carlos Menem, Insfrán later became close to President Néstor ...

Governor of Jujuy Province The Governor of Jujuy ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Jujuy) is a citizen of Jujuy Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently the governor of ...

: Gerardo Morales *

Governor of La Pampa Province The Governor of La Pampa Province ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de La Pampa) is a citizen of La Pampa Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding term. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently ...

Carlos Verna Carlos Alberto Verna (born 8 May 1946) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician who was governor of La Pampa Province twice, from 2003 to 2007 and from 2015 to 2019. He was also a National Senator for La Pampa for two terms, and se ...

Governor of La Rioja Province The Governor of La Rioja ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de La Rioja) is a citizen of La Rioja Province in Argentina holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently the go ...

Ricardo Quintela Ricardo Clemente Quintela (born 16 March 1960) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who is currently Governor of La Rioja Province, since 11 December 2019. He was previously Mayor of the City of La Rioja from 2003 to 2015, as well as ...

Governor of Mendoza Province The Constitution (1916) of Mendoza Province, Argentina, states that the executive power of the province will be led by a citizen chosen as a governor by the people for a four-year term, and not allowed to be re-elected for the immediately followi ...

: Alfredo Cornejo *

Governor of Misiones Province The Governor of Misiones Province ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Misiones) is the chief executive of Misiones, one of the federal Provinces of Argentina. This office is elected by the popular vote of the province for term of four years. Since ...

: Hugo Passalacqua *

Governor of Neuquén Province The Governor of Neuquén is a citizen of the Neuquén Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently the governor of Neuquén is Omar Gutiérrez. Go ...

Omar Gutiérrez Omar Gutiérrez (born 24 September 1967) is an Argentine politician, who serves as governor of the Neuquén Province. He is the former minister of economy of the previous governor, Jorge Sapag. With his victory in the 2015 elections, the Neuquén P ...

* Governor of Río Negro Province:

Alberto Weretilneck Alberto Weretilneck (born 11 October 1962) is an Argentine politician currently serving as Senator for Río Negro Province. Previously, from 2012 to 2019, he was the province's governor. Biography Born in El Bolsón, Río Negro, he joined the ...

* Governor of Salta Province: Juan Manuel Urtubey * Governor of San Juan Province: Sergio Uñac * Governor of San Luis Province:

Alberto Rodríguez Saá Alberto José Rodriguez Saá (born August 21, 1949) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He is the Governor of San Luis Province. He was presidential candidate for the center-right peronism, Federal Peronism, in 2007 and 2011. The Rodrigue ...

* Governor of Santa Cruz Province:

Alicia Kirchner Alicia Margarita Kirchner (born 18 July 1946) is an Argentine politician. She is the elder sister of the late former President Néstor Kirchner and served in his government as Minister of Social Development, a role which she held under President ...

Governor of Santa Fe Province The Governor of Santa Fe ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Santa Fe) is a citizen of Santa Fe Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. Currently the governor of Santa Fe is Omar Perotti, of the Justicia ...

Miguel Lifschitz Roberto Miguel Lifschitz (13 September 1955 – 9 May 2021) was an Argentine politician and civil engineer of the Socialist Party who was Governor of Santa Fe Province from 2015 to 2019. Prior to that, he was '' intendente'' (mayor) of Rosario, ...

* Governor of Santiago del Estero:

Claudia Ledesma Abdala Claudia Alejandra Ledesma Abdala de Zamora (born 14 September 1974) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for Santiago del Estero Province and as Provisional President of the Argentine Senate since 2019. A member of ...

(until 10 December);

Gerardo Zamora Gerardo Zamora (born 6 January 1964) is an Argentine politician from Santiago del Estero Province. Governor of Santiago del Estero since 2005, he was a member of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR). Early life and education Born in rural Bowe ...

(starting 10 December) * Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Rosana Bertone *

Governor of Tucumán A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political r ...

Juan Luis Manzur Juan Luis Manzur (born 8 January 1969) is an Argentine surgeon and politician. A member of the Justicialist Party, he currently serves as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, under President Alberto Fernández. He previously served as Minister of ...

Vice Governors

*Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Daniel Salvador *Vice Governor of Catamarca Province: Octavio Gutiérrez (until 10 December); Jorge Solá Jais (starting 10 December) *Vice Governor of Chaco Province:

Daniel Capitanich Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...

*Vice Governor of Corrientes Province: Gustavo Canteros *Vice Governor of Entre Rios Province: Adán Bahl *Vice Governor of Formosa Province:

Floro Bogado Floro Eleuterio Bogado (February 20, 1939 – December 12, 2017) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, lawyer and diplomat. He served as Vice-Governor of Formosa Province under Gildo Insfrán from 1995 to 2017, and was Governor from 198 ...

(until 12 December); vacant thereafter (starting 12 December) *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 Oscar Herrera Ahuad (born 20 August 1971) is an Argentina, Argentine physician and politician who is currently Governor of Misiones Province, governor of Misiones Province, since 10 December 2019. Prior to that, he served as Vice Governor under ...

*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 Carlos Armando Ponce Freyre Jr. (born September 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican actor, musician, model, and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce contin ...

*Vice Governor of Santa Cruz: Pablo González *Vice Governor of Santa Fe Province: Carlos Fascendini *Vice Governor of Santiago del Estero: José Emilio Neder (until 10 December); Carlos Silva Neder (starting 10 December) *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 The Martín Fierro Awards ( es, Premios Martín Fierro) is the name of the most prominent awards for Argentine radio and television, granted by APTRA, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists. History The awards were first g ...

ceremony

Events

January

* January 1: Celebrations of the New Year's Eve in

Villa Gesell Villa Gesell is a seaside resort city in Villa Gesell Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It was founded in 1931, with the intention of turning a dune field into a timber plantation.

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 Milagro Amalia Ángela Sala (born January 27, 1964) is a leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood association,''We M ...

. ** Governor

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 Once railway station ( es, Estación Once de Septiembre, translation=Eleventh of September Station, ; informally known as ) is a large railway terminus in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the '' barrio'' of Balvanera. The station, inaugurat ...

are driven away by the police. * January 11 ** Mauricio Macri announces an investment plan for

Vaca Muerta The Vaca Muerta Formation, commonly known as Vaca Muerta (Spanish for ''Dead Cow''), is a geologic formation of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous age, located in the Neuquén Basin in northern Patagonia, Argentina. It is well known as the host ro ...

. ** Leonardo Meirelles, sentenced in the

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, reveals that he had transferred half a million dollars to Gustavo Arribas, head of the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina (AFI), in 2013. ** Former governor

Daniel Scioli Daniel Osvaldo Scioli (, ; born 13 January 1957) is an Argentine politician, sportsman, and businessman. He was Vice President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and Governor of Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2015. From 2020 to 2022 he was Arge ...

meets

Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...

. * January 14: It became known that the President-elect of the United States

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...

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 The Province of Santa Fe ( es, Provincia de Santa Fe, ) is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco (divided by the 28th parallel south), Corrientes, Entre R� ...

. * January 19 ** Javier González Fraga is appointed president of the Banco de la Nación Argentina. ** Bicentennial of the

Crossing of the Andes The Crossing of the Andes ( es, Cruce de los Andes) was one of the most important feats in the Argentine and Chilean wars of independence, in which a combined army of Argentine soldiers and Chilean exiles invaded Chile crossing the Andes r ...

* January 20: A leaked audio reveals an old phone conversation between then president

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and the head of the

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Oscar Parrilli Oscar Isidro Parrilli (born 13 August 1951) is an Argentine lawyer and politician, member of the Justicialist Party. Oscar Parrilli is National Senator He was born in San Martín de Los Andes, Neuquén province in 1951 and studied law at the Uni ...

. 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 The Argentine Sea ( es, Mar Argentino) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the southern tip of South America. It ranges from the mouth of the estuary of the Río de la Plata in the north (35th parallel south) to the Isla de los ...

* January 30: Jorge Olivera, at large since 2013, is recaptured.

February

* February 1: Judge

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open the case based on the investigations by the late

Alberto Nisman Natalio Alberto Nisman (5 December 1963 – 18 January 2015) was an Argentine lawyer who worked as a federal prosecutor, noted for being the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, t ...

. * 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.

Deaths

* January 9: Politician José María Díaz Bancalari * January 13: Folk singer

Horacio Guarany Eraclio Catalin Rodríguez Cereijo, better known as Horacio Guarany (May 15, 1925 – January 13, 2017), was one of the main Argentine folklore Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to tha ...

. * January 23: Television presenter Julieta Magaña * April 11: Politician

Alberto Balestrini Alberto Edgardo Balestrini (9 March 1947 – 4 April 2017) was an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party. Balestrini held a number of important posts throughout his career: he served as Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province under Dan ...

References

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* {{Year in South America, 2017 2010s in Argentina Years of the 21st century in Argentina

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