Vice Governor of Santiago del Estero: Blanca Porcel
Vice Governor of Tierra del Fuego: vacant (until 10 December); Carlos Basanetti (starting 10 December)
Events
January
12 January: Former president Isabel Perón is arrested in Madrid, Spain, following a warrant issued by an Argentine judge investigating the forced disappearance of a student activist in 1976. Another warrant follows soon, as well as a request for her extradition to Argentina.[1][2]
26 January: The wine-producing area of San Rafael, Mendoza is hit by a hailstorm, which ruins the grape harvest in the region and causes AR$50 million in damages.[3]
13 March: In La Rioja, governor Ángel Maza, after being impeached by a legislature that answers to vice governor Luis Beder Herrera, locks himself up in the government house, while violent protests take place outside, until the police force Maza's supporters to leave. The national government briefly considers federal intervention.[4]
26 March: A massive storm system brings heavy rain to the center and south of Santa Fe. The rain falls almost continuously for more than one week. Large sections of Santa Fe City and peripheral neighbourhoods of Rosario, as well as many smaller towns and large sections of Argentina's most productive agricultural land, are flooded. The storm moves east, affecting the south of Entre Ríos and eventually reaching Uruguay. See March 2007 floods in the Argentine littoral.
9 April: Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina protest against the death of Carlos Fuentealba, a school teacher having been severely injured by a tear gas canister fired by police during a protest the previous week over pay and working conditions.[5]
11 April: Among accusations of government tampering with economic statistics, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) modifies previous inflation figures and announces that the basic food basket experienced 0.2% deflation in March.[7]
11 April: Football: The semi-finals of Copa del Rey begin in Nou Camp. Argentine Lionel Messi scored a spectacular goal against Getafe CF.That goal is very similar to a Diego Maradona's goal against England in Mexico World Cup 1986.Both of them passed six defenders including goalkeeper and scored.
25 April: An Argentine federal court overturns the pardons issued to General Jorge Videla and former Admiral Emilio Massera following convictions received for their activities during the "Dirty War" of the 1970s. The repeal of the pardons is largely symbolic, since the two are already under house arrest and serving lengthy sentences for other crimes.
May
10 May: Santa Cruz Province governor Carlos Sancho resigns, after weeks of strikes and demonstrations by the teachers' union followed by violent police repression. Provincial deputy Daniel Peralta is chosen to replace him.[8]
9 July: On the country's Independence Day, snow falls in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the first time in 89 years and the second time in recorded history. Two people die of exposure in Argentina while one person dies in Chile.[9]
13 August: A scandal erupts in Argentina when a Venezuelan businessman is caught trying to smuggle US$800,000 into the country on a plane belonging to Enarsa, Argentina's government-owned energy company.[15]
28 October: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory, wife of incumbent president Néstor Kirchner, resoundingly wins presidential elections in the first round and becomes the first female president elected in Argentina. The second-placed candidate s another women, Elisa Carrió of the Civic Coalition.
