2018 in Argentina

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

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.

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)