2014 in Argentina

Decades:	1990s; 2000s; 2010s; 2020s;
See also:	Other events of 2014; List of years in Argentina

The following lists events from the year 2014 in Argentina.

Incumbents

Events

January

January 24 - Restrictions enacted two years earlier on retail purchases of U.S. dollars were eased following a 15% drop in the Argentine peso days earlier.^[1]

February

February 8 - A truck and a bus collide in the Argentine province of Mendoza, killing at least 17 people and injuring more than 10 others.
February 17 - The Vatican head of state, Pope Francis, renews his Argentine passport, reportedly asking not to enjoy any privilege.

March

March 17 - President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner visited Pope Francis at the Vatican; it was their third meeting.^[2]
March 26 - Two new terminals at Buenos Aires' Jorge Newbery Airfield, the nation's busiest airport, were inaugurated, effectively doubling the airport's passenger capacity.^[3]

April

April 10 - Massive general strike led by Dissident CGT heads Hugo Moyano and Luis Barrionuevo, and Dissident CTA head Pablo Micheli.^[4]
April 22 - Broad Front UNEN, a center-left political coalition, was established following a convention in Buenos Aires' Broadway Theater.^[5]

May

May 1 - Siam Di Tella's manufacturing plant in the Buenos Aires suburb of Piñeiro, once the largest appliance factory in South America, was reopened by local household electronics maker Newsan after 28 years.^[6]
May 7 - Singer/songwriter Teresa Parodi was appointed the nation's first Minister of Culture following the president's decision to promote the Culture Secretariat to a cabinet-level ministry.^[7]
May 16 - Announcement made of a new species of Titanosaur discovered in Patagonia, the largest land animal found to date^[8]
May 29 - An agreement was reached with the Paris Club of creditor nations (the last remaining Argentine debt still in default besides bonds held by holdouts) on debt repayment totaling USD9 billion including penalties and interest.^[9]

June

June 27 - Vice President Amado Boudou was indicted on passive bribery and influence peddling charges; Boudou appealed the indictment on July 10, alleging malicious prosecution.^[10]

July

July 13 - Germany defeated Argentina by 1-0 in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final.^[11]
July 12 - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping made official state visits to Argentina, during which a number of significant cultural and commercial agreements were signed.^[12]^[13]
July 30 - Payments to bondholders with US$13 billion in New York-issued Argentine government bonds were stopped by District Court Judge Thomas Griesa at the behest of holdouts led by Paul Singer of Cayman Islands-based vulture fund NML Capital Limited;^[14] Argentine bonds issued under Buenos Aires and European Law were not affected.^[15]^[16]

August

August 5 - Estela Barnes de Carlotto, President of the Association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, announced that her long-lost grandson Guido (illegally given up for adoption at birth by his parents' military abductors during the Dirty War) had been discovered after he came forward for a DNA test.^[17]
August 30 - ARSAT-1, the first geostationary satellite to be fully produced domestically, was unveiled, making Argentina only of only eight countries in the world to have done so.^[18]

Deaths

January 2: Horacio Fargosi, 87, President of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange
January 5: Eugenia de Chikoff, 94, etiquette writer
January 14: Juan Gelman, 83, poet
January 25: Emanuel Saldaño, 28, cyclist
January 28: Jorge Obeid, 66, Senator from Santa Fe Province
February 20: Jorge Polaco, 67, film maker
March 9: Carlos Moreno, 75, actor
March 14: Jorge Ibáñez, 44, fashion designer
April 11: Alfredo Alcón, 84, actor
April 12: Carlos Peralta, 50, Vice Governor of Río Negro Province
April 13: Ernesto Laclau, 78, political scientist
April 15: Eliseo Verón, 78, sociologist
April 24: Ricardo Bauleo, 67, actor
April 29: Norma Pons, 71, actress
May 5: Eduardo Mac Entyre, 85, painter
May 10: Carmen Argibay, 74, Argentine Supreme Court Justice
May 10: Miguel Brascó, 87, food and wine critic
May 10: Andrés Carrasco, 67, discovered adverse effects of glyphosate (Monsanto Roundup)
June 3: Virginia Luque, 86, Tango singer
June 9: Danilo Baroni, 92, former Governor of Chaco Province
June 30: Alejandra Da Passano, 66, actress
July 6: Rogelio Polesello, 75, sculptor
July 6: Ernesto Ueltschi, 92, former Governor of Mendoza Province
July 7: Alfredo Di Stéfano, 88, football forward
July 9: Alberto Cassano, 79, nuclear engineer
July 28: Iris Scaccheri, 64, choreographer
July 30: Julio Grondona, 82, President of the Argentine Football Association
July 31: Jorge Jacobson, 78, journalist
August 7: Víctor Fayad, 59, Mayor of Mendoza
August 9: Leonardo Moledo, 67, mathematician and writer
August 12: Abel Laudonio, 75, boxer
August 14: Mariana Briski, 48, actress
August 16: Pascual Mastellone, 84, Chairman of La Serenísima
August 20: Eduardo Moliné O'Connor, 76, former Supreme Court Justice
September 4: Gustavo Cerati, 55, musician
September 17: China Zorrilla, 92, actress
September 21: Cecilia Cenci, 72, actress
November 17: Omar Chabán, 62, nightclub owner
December 21: Horacio Ferrer, 81, Uruguay-born poet and composer

External links

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[1] Marketwatch

[2] Rome Reports

[3] Telam

[4] Buenos Aires Herald

[5] Buenos Aires Herald

[6] La Mañana de Neuquén

[7] Buenos Aires Herald

[8] BBC News

[9] Buenos Aires Herald

[10] Buenos Aires Herald

[11] New York Times

[12] Deutsche Welle

[13] South China Morning Post

[14] Slate

[15] New York Times

[16] Buenos Aires Herald

[17] Buenos Aires Herald

[18] Buenos Aires herald

Years in Argentina (1800–present)
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21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

2014 in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands