2024 in Argentina

Events in the year 2024 in Argentina.

Incumbents

 * President: Javier Milei
 * Vice President: Victoria Villarruel

Health emergencies

 * 2024 dengue epidemic in Argentina

January

 * January 19: Argentina deports eight Ecuadorians, including relatives of gang leader José Adolfo Macías Villamar, who were arrested on 18 January amid the ongoing conflict in Ecuador.
 * January 24: Tens of thousands of workers go on a 12 hour strike led by Argentina's largest union, in protest of president Javier Milei's policies.
 * January 29: 600 hectares of forest are destroyed by fire in Los Alerces National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Patagonia.

March

 * March 4: State news agency Télam is closed after 80 years and police surround its offices in Buenos Aires a week after president Milei threatened to close the agency, criticizing its alleged leftist positions.
 * March 7: President Milei orders the deployment of federal forces into Rosario to combat drug-related violence following a request from Santa Fe provincial governor Maximiliano Pullaro.
 * March 20: Argentina announces a charge against Venezuela before the International Civil Aviation Organization for allegedly violating the Convention on International Civil Aviation after President Nicolás Maduro banned Argentine aircraft from its airspace earlier this month amid traded accusations with President Milei.
 * March 27: Argentina orders the deployment of at least two gendarmerie to the Argentine embassy in Venezuela, where allies of opposition leader María Corina Machado take refuge amid more confrontation between the two countries.

April

 * April 5 – The Venezuelan government announces that it will give safe passage to Argentina to six aides of opposition leader María Corina Machado who are taking refuge in the Argentine embassy in Caracas.
 * April 16 – Argentina and Denmark sign a 2.1 billion kroner ($300 million) deal for the sale of 24 Royal Danish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons to Argentina. No date for the F-16s to be handed over to Argentina has been announced.
 * April 24 –
 * Argentina issues an arrest warrant via Interpol for Iranian interior minister Ahmad Vahidi in connection with the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires. Vahidi is currently believed to be in Sri Lanka.
 * Thousands of people protest in Buenos Aires against reductions in funding for universities made by President Milei.

May

 * May 7 – The Central Bank of Argentina releases the highest banknote of the Argentine peso, valued at 10,000 pesos but with a conversion rate of only $11.
 * May 9 – Unions launch a general strike against President Milei's planned reforms and budget cuts.
 * May 10 – At least 90 people are injured after a seven-car passenger train collides with a locomotive in Palermo, Buenos Aires.
 * May 21 – Spain recalls its ambassador in Buenos Aires after President Milei makes disparaging remarks against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his wife Begoña Gómez during Milei's visit to the country.

June

 * June 12 – Riots break out in Buenos Aires as the Argentine Senate votes 37-36 to provisionally approve President Milei's economic reform package.
 * June 28 – The Argentine Chamber of Deputies votes to approve President Milei's economic reform package.

July

 * July 1 – Bolivia summons its ambassador to Argentina after President Milei calls the recent 2024 Bolivian coup attempt "fraudulent" and implies that it was staged.
 * July 8 – French rugby players Oscar Jégou and Hugo Auradou are arrested in Buenos Aires on suspicion of raping a woman while the French national rugby team was on tour in Mendoza.
 * July 12 – Argentina formally designates Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
 * July 14 – Argentina wins its 16th Copa America title following a 1-0 match against Colombia at the 2024 Copa América final held in Miami.
 * July 15 – An A-4AR Fightinghawk attack aircraft of the Argentine Air Force crashes in Villa Reynolds Airport, San Luis. The pilot dies after ejecting from the plane at a low altitude.

Deaths

 * January 14 - Enrique Roizner, 84, drummer.
 * January 15 - Jorge Griffa, 88, footballer (Newell's Old Boys, Atlético Madrid, national team).
 * January 16 - Ottavio Dazzan, 66, Argentine-born Italian Olympic cyclist (1980).
 * January 19 - Héctor Bidonde, 86, actor (La Rabona, Alma mía, Chile 672) and stage director.
 * February 5 - José Delbo, 90, comic book artist (Wonder Woman, The Transformers).
 * February 6 - Cecilia Gentili, 52, Argentine-born American actress (Pose) and LGBTQ activist.
 * May 5 - César Luis Menotti, 85, former football player and head coach.
 * May 24 - Santiago Omar Riveros, 100, general and convicted criminal.

Art and entertainment

 * List of 2024 box office number-one films in Argentina
 * List of Argentine submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film