# 2018 in Argentina

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The following lists events that happened in Argentina in 2018.

## Incumbents

* President: Mauricio Macri
* Vice President: Gabriela Michetti

### Governors

* Governor of Buenos Aires Province: María Eugenia Vidal
* Governor of Catamarca Province: Lucía Corpacci
* Governor of Chaco Province: Domingo Peppo
* 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
* Governor of La Rioja Province: Ricardo Quintela
* Governor of Mendoza Province: Alfredo Cornejo
* Governor of Misiones Province: Hugo Passalacqua
* Governor of Neuquén Province: Omar Gutiérrez
* Governor of Río Negro Province: Alberto Weretilneck
* Governor of Salta Province: Juan Manuel Urtubey
* 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
* Governor of Santiago del Estero: Gerardo Zamora
* Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Rosana Bertone
* Governor of Tucumán: Juan Luis Manzur

### Vice Governors

* Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Daniel Salvador
* Vice Governor of Catamarca Province: 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: vacant
* 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: Carlos Silva Neder
* Vice Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Mónica Urquiza

## Predicted and scheduled events
### May

* End of the 2017–18 Argentine Primera División tournament.

### November

* November 30: 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit

### Unknown month

* Martín Fierro Awards ceremony.
* Superclásico
* Abortion debate over an abortion law bill.

## Events
### January

* January 3: The tariffs of metropolitan buses, trains and subways in Buenos Aires are increased.
* January 4: Union leader Marcelo Balcedo, accused of money laundering, is detained in Uruguay, in a joint operation between the Interpol and the Uruguayan police.
* January 6: The economic emergency law ceases to be in force.
* January 9: Unable to get support from the PJ and the CGT for an amendment in the labor law, Macri postpones the bill for March.
* January 19: Raúl Zaffaroni, judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, urges President Macri to resign.

### February

* February 1
** Police officer Luis Chocobar is indicted by the judiciary, accused of murder, for shooting a thief who attempted to kill a tourist. President Macri receives him at the Casa Rosada, giving him his full support.
** Members of the Argentine Congress propose a bill to ask for the removal of judge Raúl Zaffaroni from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
* February 2: The government closes the National Lottery, and ends the "Prode" game.
* February 7: Minister Patricia Bullrich meets with US specialists in security and terrorism, to discuss the G20 summit. Those people voiced concerns about a presence of Hezbollah in the Triple Frontier.
* February 8
** Members of the Peronist parties Justicialist Party, Renewal Front and Citizen's Unity hold a summit, discussing a joint ticket for the 2019 general elections. The Peronist provincial governors did not attend it, with the exception of Alberto Rodríguez Saá.
** Estela de Carlotto has a private meeting with Pope Francis.
* February 9: General strike of national banks.
* February 19: Two-days general strike of national banks.
* February 21: A general strike is called by union leader Hugo Moyano.
* February 22: Six suspected drug traffickers are jailed at the Russian embassy while trying to smuggle drugs in a diplomatic flight.
* February 27: Bolivia rejects a treaty of mutual free healthcare with Argentina.
* February 28
** Bolivia reverses their previous decision, and announces a mutual free healthcare treaty with Argentina.
** Union leaders Hugo and Pablo Moyano are indicted on money laundering charges.

### March

* March 1: Opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina.
* March 3: The Polish League Against Defamation filed a complaint against the newspaper Página/12, accusing them to violate the recently amended Act on the Institute of National Remembrance, which forbids any suggestion of Polish involvement in the Holocaust.
* March 5:
** Facundo Jones Huala, leader of the Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche guerrilla, is extradited to Chile.
** Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is indicted for allegedly obstructing investigation into the 1994 AMIA Bombing which killed 85 people, allegedly making a deal with the Iranian government to stop investigating Iranian officials involved in the attack in exchange for better prices on Iranian oil.
* March 8: Large demonstrations during the International Women's Day.
* March 12: The ice bridge of the Perito Moreno Glacier collapses.
* March 13:
** Julio Galván, member of the UOCRA union, is attacked by criminals. He denounced that the attack was carried out by rivals from the union.
** Politicians from all political parties prepare a joint message for Pope Francis, at the 5º anniversary of his appointment.

## Deaths

* January 5: Antonio Valentín Angelillo (soccer player)
* January 11: Noemi Lapzeson (dancer)
* January 16: Rubén Oswaldo Díaz (soccer player)
* February 6
** Débora Pérez Volpin (journalist)
** Liliana Bodoc (writer)
* February 16: Osvaldo Suárez (sportsman)
* February 27
** Luciano Benjamín Menéndez (general)
** Hugo Santiago (director)
** Héctor Roquel (deputy)
* March 7: Reynaldo Bignone (de facto president)
* March 13: Gastón Tavagnutti (dancer)
* March 14:
** Emilio Disi (actor)
** Rubén Galván, footballer (b. 1952)
* March 22: René Houseman (soccer player)
* July 10: Alicia Bellán (film, theatre actress)
* September 7: Julio Blanck (journalist)
* October 2: Hermenegildo Sábat (comic book artist)