2011 in Argentina

Events from the year 2011 in Argentina

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 2.12 December 2.13 Unknown date 2.14 Ongoing 3 Births 4 Deaths

Incumbents

• President: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
• Vicepresident: Julio Cobos

Events

January

February

March

• Lucía Corpacci wins the elections for governor of Catamarca.
• The elections for governor of Chubut end in a technical tie; the candidate Carlos Eliceche denounced electoral fraud. Mario Das Neves, governor of Chubut, declines his precandidature to the 2011 presidential elections.
• The judiciary of Suiza requests information about truck union leader Hugo Moyano. Moyano calls for a massive strike.

April

• Julio Cobos declines his precandidature to run for the presidency of Argentina. Ernesto Sanz does the same a pair of weeks later. Thus, Ricardo Alfonsín is appointed candidate to the presidency for the Radical Civic Union.
• Death of Ernesto Sábato

May

• Mauricio Macri declines his precandidature to run for the presidency of Argentina, running instead for reelection as mayor of Buenos Aires.
• Cristina Fernández choose Daniel Filmus to run for mayor of Buenos Aires.
• A show of the rock band La Renga ends with a death caused by pyrotechnic flare.

June

• River Plate lost a two-ledged match against Belgrano, being relegated to the National B tournament. The second match ends with a massive riot at the Monumental.

July

• Mauricio Macri runs for reelection as mayor of Buenos Aires, getting nearly 47% of the vote. The results call for a runoff election against Daniel Filmus, the second candidate, who got the 27% of the vote.
• Socialist Antonio Bonfatti becomes governor of Santa Fe. Miguel del Sel gets an unexpected second place in the election, leaving the kirchnerist candidate Agustín Rossi in the third place.
• In the Noble siblings case, Marcela and Felipe Noble Herrera (adoptive sons of Ernestina Herrera de Noble) accepted a DNA profiling against a database of disappeared women during the Dirty War. All results are negative, confirming that they were not sons of disappeared women.
• Argentina hosts the 2011 Copa América. The Argentina national football team, however, is defeated early, in a penalty shoot-out against Uruguay.

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown date

Ongoing

Births

Deaths

• January 4 – Gustavo Kupinski, 36, guitarist
• January 10 – María Elena Walsh, 80, musician, poet and writer
• January 12 – Clemar Bucci, 90, racing driver
• February 1 – Julio Barragán, 82, painter
• February 2 – Daniela Castelo, 47, journalist and radio host
• February 20 – Noemí Simonetto de Portela, 85, athlete
• March 5 – Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born biochemist and companion of Che Guevara
• March 10 – David Viñas, dramatist, critic, and novelist
• March 12 – Shifra Lerer, 95, Argentine-born actress
• March 20 – Néstor de Vicente, 46, footballer
• March 25 – Hugo Midón, 67, children's literature writer
• April 20 – Osvaldo Miranda, 95, actor
• April 30 – Ernesto Sábato, 99, writer and physicist
• May 6 – Rolo Puente, 71, actor
• May 8 – Carlos Trillo, 68, comic book writer
• June 22 – Carmelo Juan Giaquinta, 81, archbishop
• July 7 – José Carlos Martínez, 48, politician
• July 9 – Facundo Cabral, 74, singer
• August 1 – Florentina Gómez Miranda, 99, teacher and lawyer
• August 12 – Francisco Solano López, 83, comic book artist
• August 15 – Hugo Perié, 67, politician
• August 21 – Ezra Sued, 88, footballer
• November 24 – Antonio Domingo Bussi, 85, military

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