2018 in Argentina

Incumbents

• President: Mauricio Macri
• Vice President: Gabriela Michetti

  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, mentions that he would wish for president Macri to resign.

  February

• February 1
• * Police officer Luis Chocobar is indicted by the judiciary, accused of murder, for shooting a thief that 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 have 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: General strike 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.
• 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.

  Births

Deaths

• January 5: Antonio Valentín Angelillo
• January 11: Noemi Lapzeson
• January 16: Rubén Oswaldo Díaz
• February 6
• * Débora Pérez Volpin
• * Liliana Bodoc
• February 16: Osvaldo Suárez
• February 27
• * Luciano Benjamín Menéndez
• * Hugo Santiago
• * Héctor Roquel
• March 7: Reynaldo Bignone
• March 13: Gastón Tavagnutti
• March 14: Emilio Disi
• March 22: René Houseman
• July 10: Alicia Bellán
• September 7: Julio Blanck
• October 2: Hermenegildo Sábat